Martin Alderson

This is the first in a series of three articles I'm going to be releasing over the holiday season, on how I think agents are completely reshaping software engineering beyond pure productivity enhancements.

We spent fifteen years watching software eat the world.

I've been building software professionally for nearly 20 years.

I feel like we've just had another GPT4 moment (after everyone being sure that scaling laws were collapsing and progress was stalled).

IPv6 has been a bit of a conundrum to me.

If like me you're heavily bought into the benefits of blazing fast, affordable, bare metal servers I've found Claude Code makes a superb assistant for helping managing the maintenance of them.

It seems the new space that is going to get transformed by agents is Excel.

I keep hearing the AI datacentre boom compared to the 2000s telecoms crash.

I've been advising non-technical execs at mid-sized companies for a while now.

I've been curious about how fast the MCP ecosystem is actually growing.

I've been at the MCP Dev Summit Europe conference today in London.

One often overlooked element of the software development lifecycle is CI/CD speed, and relatively how easy it is to improve this with better hardware.

Something weird is going on with Google's Gemini via their AI studio API.

It's funny how quickly humans adjust to new technology.

One of the main frustrations I have with Claude Code (or any coding agent) is its over-reliance on grep-style code search while it is working, when actually there are far more effective ways to do this with static code analysis.

I keep hearing what a cash incinerator AI is, especially around inference.

Like many software engineers, I've really found Claude Code an amazing tool for doing a lot of the heavy lifting of software engineering.

MCP is probably the most exciting development in AI and software development I can remember.

I've finally started a blog.