Martin Fowler
Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)
A structured approach to using prompts to guide AI-assisted programming.
Martin Fowler
Feedback Flywheel
Every AI interaction generates signal: prompts that worked, context that was missing, patterns that succeeded, failures worth preventing. Most teams discard this signal. I propose a structured feedback practice that harvests learnings from AI sessions and...
Martin Fowler
Principles of Mechanical Sympathy
Principles of mechanical sympathy for creating performant software: Memory access patterns, false sharing, the single-writer principle, and natural batching.
Martin Fowler
Harness engineering for coding agent users
A mental model for building trust in coding agents through feedforward guides, feedback sensors, and iterative harness engineering.
Martin Fowler
Encoding Team Standards
AI coding assistants respond to whoever is prompting, and the quality of what they produce depends on how well the prompter articulates team standards. Rahul Garg proposes treating the instructions that govern AI interactions (generation, refactoring,...