The 2nd edition of "Get Your Hands Dirty ond Clean Architecture" is out now! Find all versions of the book on reflectoring.io/book.

Software engineers: Context switching kills productivity. Also software engineers: I'm now managing 19 AI agents and doing 1800 commits a day. We’ve spent years complaining that managers who expect a quick 5-minute chat ruin our focus for the next hour. But a ping from an agent every few minutes, that’s ok? We celebrated Paul Graham’s essay “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” in which he argued: “When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in.” Now we see software engineers claiming huge productivity gains from hordes of AI agents, celebrating thousands of commits per day from their 19 agents. Either context switching was never really the problem, and we oversold our need for deep focus. Or we're not actually reviewing 1800 commits a day. If we couldn't context switch before, we're not managing 19 agents. We're blindly trusting them. That’s not engineering, it’s gambling.

I'm excited to be speaking at Spring I/O 2025 on May 23 about how to sell (software) maintainability. See you there? #springio25

Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.

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Watch my talk about Platform Engineering with Spring Boot for me so I don't have to (I hate watching myself) :)

The Spring I/O 2024 pictures are live! 📸 Check out all the amazing moments we captured. Relive the excitement and see if you can spot yourself! #springio24 flickr.com/photos/198207824@…

Relaxing in the airport lounge after @spring_io. I'm sad it's over, but it could be worse 😄

What an amazing crowd! One more year finishing @spring_io with the classical bike & wine. #springio24

Tour de Spring I/o

See you there!

I'm forcing myself to do pull ups to exertion every time I enter my study. Either I will get insanely buff or I will teach myself to never enter my study again...

👋 Hey, Spring fans! I've got some news to share with you today – I've launched Spring Builders, a community platform dedicated to all things Spring Framework! 🍃 springbuilders.dev

Working on a big document with Word be like...🤮

I'm excited to speak at @spring_io again this year! Looking forward to meet you all (again)! 2024.springio.net/sessions/p…

Mornings are to make progress on the hard problems. Afternoons are to deal with the easy problems. Evenings are to chill out with no problems.

Are you a Sydney-based Java developer who wants to build GPT-backed solutions? Come along to this March 6 meetup where I will be co-presenting on exactly that subject! Join me at Sydney Java Meet-Up - Building Awesome Apps using GPT-4, Azure OpenAI Java meetu.ps/e/MWLHk/fvRPj/i