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A website on building software effectively
Martin Fowler
Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD)
A structured approach to using prompts to guide AI-assisted programming.
Topics: Programming
Entities: 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.
Topics: Programming
Entities: Programming