Doing Software Wrong

Our repositories have stopped being just a safe home for our codebase, they have become a noticeboard.

Most developers have become pretty good at using AI, some reluctantly.

The productivity bit is real Recently, I had one of those deeply suspicious moments in my software career where something starts working so well you immediately stop trusting it.

I had a moment this week where I genuinely considered becoming a Luddite.

There’s been a weird tone creeping into all my conversations lately.

Sometimes there is that person in a meeting - the one whose Miro board is a web of arrows and sticky notes like a detective’s evidence board - who announces that the reason everything is on fire is because we are not following The Process™.

I was trying to build a survey form.

There’s a new phase in the corporate lifecycle - somewhere between “we need to modernise” and “someone please find the person who owned this spreadsheet” - where an executive suddenly sits up, eyes glowing with the confidence of someone who has not read a…

I didn’t start my career thinking I’d one day be yelled at by a stranger because a button didn’t do what they expected.

There’s a particular moment in every software project where someone leans back in their chair, exhales deeply and says, “Well.