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kingkongjaffayesterday at 7:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Coming from Thoughtworks it also gives a bit of gravitas

Why? I thought the opposite. Consultancies, of which thoughtworks is one, publish thought leadership as marketing material.


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superfrankyesterday at 7:49 PM

Mainly because Martin Fowler is part of their C suite

I agree that it's marketing material, but that doesn't instantly make it garbage. I've been reading their quarterly Thoughtworks Radar for a while now and it's clearly put together by people who understand the industry.

Rapzidyesterday at 7:23 PM

> "Where does the rigor go?"

> Engineering quality doesn't disappear when AI writes code. It migrates to specs, tests, constraints, and risk management.

These are generic "thoughts" you can get from any agency pushing AI SDLC. The pages I read through left me wondering if there was even a real retreat.

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