Civic Innovations

A lot of people I talk to that are new to AI-assisted coding make a similar mistake: they look at it as automation when in reality it’s delegation.

There’s a useful idea that comes up often in discussions about government reform, one that I find myself returning to frequently when talking with civic technologists and others new to public service.

Agile software development was always solving two problems at once, though we’ve not always talked about them separately.

The Starting Point: A 25-Year-Old Access Application Sports Administrator is an open-source application for managing school athletics and swimming carnivals in Australia.

How Open Source Projects Need to Adapt to the AI Coding Era When the sugar first hits your bloodstream everything feels awesome.

Somewhere in the tens of millions of words that make up a typical state’s statutory code, there are requirements that no longer make sense.

How AI Tools are Changing Government Technology Collaboration Forever The world of software development is changing rapidly, and the implications for how governments share technology are only beginning to come into focus.

The software industry is undergoing its most significant transformation since the rise of cloud computing.

The cost of generating software code is collapsing, and governments aren’t ready for what that means If I could single out one trend from the past twelve months in software development for people in government to watch closely, it would be this.

A fundamental shift is underway affecting the way that software is developed and maintained.