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Today, 20.08.2026, I will be holding my „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Observations From a 21-Year Journey“ talk at the Softwerkskammer Nuremberg Meetup (in person & in German). 🎟️ ➡️ 📚💭🤓
All further details can be found at:
Would be great to meet you there, 🖖
AlexPS: All my upcoming talks can be found at https://onmoderndev.de/en/blog/2025/12/10/thoughts-talks-in-2026/
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„Noch deutlicher wurde es 2013 durch Celeste Kidd an der University of Rochester: Sie wiederholte den Test mit einem Twist. Vor dem Marshmallow erlebten die Kinder entweder einen Erwachsenen, der seine Versprechen hielt — oder einen, der log. Ergebnis: Kinder in der verlässlichen Bedingung warteten zwölf Minuten. Kinder, die zuvor belogen worden waren, warteten drei (Kidd, Palmeri & Aslin, 2013). Was Kidd eigentlich…“ 1/
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#AlexThuMischttps://borisgloger.at/connection-the-dots-warum-der-erfolg-kein-charakter-ist/
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„If AI writing is pleasing and convincing, however, it is also unoriginal, often inaccurate, or both. People will therefore need their powers of discernment and comprehension more than ever. They will need to know what they think and how to make their own judgments. These are the exact skills that the use of AI threatens to erode. What’s at risk is nothing less than the ability to think for oneself. If...” 1/
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„I haven’t even mentioned artificial intelligence yet.“
… we‘ve seen that one coming, I guess😉!
But I am really interested in what will be brought forward now… 🤓
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The Atlantic: „The End of Reading is Here“
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/
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„So here we are: healthy challenge, complexity, and connection are on the ropes, and it's all our own doing. And the more we do this, the more we sacrifice our "meta super-power": the ability to build new skills we need to handle the world we're so rapidly creating.“
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The „Trends across the software craft“ section of Gergely Orosz's Craft 2026 talk are very well worth considering… because they should really give us pause:
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"This is the biggest cosmic, practical joke ever. As young people, we were promised: Okay, here’s this computer and once you’ve completely understand this computer, you’ll be fine. That’s all you need to do. So I set out the first part of my career just to become the best programmer that I could be because that’s what it would take to be successful. And then you realize: sorry, there’s this whole human side. Your ability to affect change in the world is…“ 1/
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„It is critical to rein in this modern oligarchy, and not just because we are at a precipice. This is the time to act because these leaders have one thing right: we have amazing tools at our disposal, and digital technologies could amplify what humanity can do. But only if we put these tools to work for people. And this is not going to happen until we challenge the worldview that prevails among our current global tech bosses.…“ 1/
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„All technological change is generational change. The full power and consequence of a new technology are unleashed only when those who have grown up with it become adults and begin to push their outdated parents to the margins. As the older generations die, they take with them their knowledge of what was lost when the new technology arrived, and…“ 1/
Nicholas Carr in „The Big Switch - Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google“
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Joseph Pelrine: "PsychNuggets | Why We See Faces in Toast and Talk to Our Toasters“
https://ckarchive.com/b/lmuehmhnqeqqxbd7kkm78c8kxn400ighv6x3g
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Otto Scharmer: "Leadership’s Blind Spot in the Age of AI"
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/leaderships-blind-spot-in-the-age-of-ai/
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Today, 03.07.2026, my pre-recorded „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Observations From a 21-Year Journey“ talk for the WeAreDevelopers - Online - World Congress 2026 has been published (talk in english). 🎟️ ➡️ 📚️💭🤓
All further details can be found at:
🖖, Alex
PS: All my upcoming talks can be found at https://onmoderndev.de/en/blog/2025/12/10/thoughts-talks-in-2026/
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"Herbert Simon saw the core constraint in 1971: "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." Researchers at Caltech have shown that human thought operates at roughly 10 bits per second. Your sensory systems take in billions. Your conscious mind processes ten. Every communication technology in history has increased the volume arriving at that bottleneck. Not one has widened the bottleneck itself.“
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paperclip-maximiser-you-chris-nesbitt-smith-jwcne
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Tomorrow, 24.06.2026 at 10am (Berlin time), I will be holding my „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Observations From a 21-Year Journey“ talk at the Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Australia Meetup (remote & in english). 🎟️ ➡️ 📚💭🤓
All further details can be found at:
Hope to see you there, 🖖
AlexPS: All my upcoming talks can be found at https://onmoderndev.de/en/blog/2025/12/10/thoughts-talks-in-2026/
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»Die Gefahr besteht nicht darin, dass die KI Autoren ersetzen oder meinen Workshop überflüssig machen wird. Die Gefahr ist, dass die Studierenden sich daran gewöhnen, die Reibung zu überspringen, die vorher ihren Schreibprozess sichtbar machte.«
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„Our built-in mental rhythms are adaptable to a degree that can be counterproductive. Human creativity increasingly has to adjust to the demands of machinery, and so people become less able to control their time-keeping. In other words, human inventiveness, sensitivity and flexibility are in conflict with technology's predictability, lack of imagination and resistance to change. Or to put it…“ 1/
Bodil Jönsson in „Ten Thoughts About Time“
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"Supporting the Moment: Seeing Software as Activity Instead of Artifact“
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In exactly this context the following toot by @mcc has indeed aged well (fyi @baldur):
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114321812582398229
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Ten takeaways from the AI Engineering Report 2026: The Acceleration Whiplash
https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways
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„… resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happen so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.
I worry.” /4
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Well, well... I guess @baldur’s „Out of the Software Crisis" aged well:
https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/113693205804225403
Now also with AI on top of it. Interesting times.
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Gergely Orosz: "Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering
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I will be holding my „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development“ talk on the 10.12.2026 at the IT-Tage 2026 in Frankfurt/Main 🤓📚💭, see:
Hope to see you there!
All the best from Lake Constance,🖖
Alex -
Thank you for having me and both my „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development“ 🤓📚💭 talk and my „Solutions for (Modern?) Software Development“ 🔎🎯💬 unconference teaser, @dddeu 🙏❤️🔥!
It was an honor and a real blast to be part of this year's conference program and simultaneously have the awesome ability to meet so many fellow human beings that are part of our software development community 💯.
All the best from Lake Constance,🖖
Alex