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Chaotic-good, Lawful-neutral, project witchdoctor. Bard, Dancer, Specialty massage Poet Sits underwater Playful Wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting.

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LLMs rocking it helping me fix production bugs. crazy

09.03.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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do not understand KDP/Amazon - I upload a blue cover and they print a gray cover - there's no way to predict this from the online, and last time, they never changed the cover at all, i had to make a new edition smh. If anyone bought the Amazon paperback, can you confirm? thx

09.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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amazon.com/dp/B0GRMYBN8H
can't believe the paperback is already out - less than 24 hours!
also as Kindle and ePub on my site ( alistaircockburn.company.site/Epub-Simplif... )

07.03.2026 12:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Simplifying Software Design: The Genius of Bureaucracies, or How Not-My-Job Sharpens Your Design, Preview/Amazon Edition (The Simplifying Series) Amazon.com: Simplifying Software Design: The Genius of Bureaucracies, or How Not-My-Job Sharpens Your Design, Preview/Amazon Edition (The Simplifying Series) eBook : Cockburn, Alistair: Kindle Store

wow Kindle is already live:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRJNFJ4B
and good news - the "read a sample" gives you the most important 40 pages in the book for free lol
go get it! :))

06.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just uploaded the ePUB! who wants to be first to buy and report the first error? :))
just uploaded to Amazon paper and Kindle, but those will take a few days.
alistaircockburn.company.site/Epub-Simplif...
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06.03.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

interesting - Amazon's kindle prep finds spelling errors. The paper edition prep doesn't.
But they have you submit the paper version first

06.03.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thanks - i don't know how to do that :))
i just publish as fast as i can and then post links :)
should be just a few days if all goes well

05.03.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Closing in on it - Time to go get an ISBN and start the metadata construction :)

05.03.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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draft cover - comments & suggestions welcome

05.03.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

finally got agents to break rules write code over everywhere, so he's in "rogue agents and a giant code base"

- can't wait to see how he gets out of it :)

read his substack and see what "BANANA WASH, or the Whole Kitchen Sink Methodology" looks like and produces. It's amazing

03.03.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hexagonal Vibes Teaching new dog(s pack) old tricks! A case study in using old tricks in architecture to keep new AI tools from eating their own tail.

Djordje Babic: djordjebabic.substack.com/p/hexagonal-... is an incredible piece of work
one agent planning, one building, him in the middle, going up and down the trust ladder, using the full BANANA WASH methodology from Wardley maps to Marquet's leadership ladder to Hexagons to ... everything
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03.03.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Day 5 notes programming w Claude, moving up the ladder | Alistair Cockburn, Writer Get more from Alistair Cockburn, Writer on Patreon

www.patreon.com/posts/152055...
patreon (free read) discussions w Djordje Babic adding David Marquet's Leadership Ladder. Note how Claude knows all about it.
Call it "WASHABANANA" or "Full kitchen sink" method, all our writing over the last 75 years in this field are fully paying off.

02.03.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Djordje Babic made it official (to Claude)

02.03.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

lovely thanks,
i'm leaning toward "The Whole Kitchen Sink Methodology" lol, there's not a lot left out :)

01.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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ANABWASH: ai, nano, bureaucracy, atdd, walking skeleton, hexagons | Alistair Cockburn, Writer Get more from Alistair Cockburn, Writer on Patreon

ANABWASH: ai, nano, bureaucracy, atdd, walking skeleton, hexagons
HAHA: Justin Randall "You're so close to BANANAWASH. You can't find another "NA" to throw in? πŸ˜‚"

28.02.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I might rename this the "full kitchen sink" methodology ;))

28.02.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ANABWASH: ai, nano, bureaucracy, atdd, walking skeleton, hexagons
Djordje Babic in Serbia is this to the next level -
Wardley, use cases,Marquet's leadership-ladder for trust. Claude follows/contributes
His article and talk coming up....

28.02.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

lol i'm open to suggestions!
* AI
* nano
* walking skeleton
* hexagon
* atdd or tdd
* bureaucracy
.... whatcha got?

28.02.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ANAWSH :
Ai-executed,
Nano-incremented,
ATDD,
Walking Skeleton,
Hexagons

lol, acronyms not my specialty :)) but that's it at the moment

27.02.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

(need an acronym for "LLM-executed nano-incremental ATDD hexagonal walking skeleton" lol)

27.02.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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day 4 LLM drill : thinking about cognitive overload from fast LLMs - how do we humans keep any sense of what's happening?

even my little table of nano-slices overwhelmed my poor little brain, so looking at a way to spec them so that i can read what's going on.

eg this table

27.02.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œSure, i’ll just sign this contract, i have no idea what it says but it’s too long to read.”
me, working with Claude on generating code

26.02.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

im happy to report my dev process is fully buzzword compliant: "LLM-executed nano-incremental walking skeleton hexagonal arch atdd cicd github” structure

heh, I should be ready to ascend to nirvana any minute now :))

26.02.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my next test, which would get the tax rate from a repository... What Claude automagically did was to use the initial service call "greetings()" which returns "hello" ... this establishes the primary port without messing up the actual service interface.

... Nice move, Claude :)

26.02.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Claude just taught me something yesterday ... in my nano-incremental hexagonal development, i always start with return a constant. But I always did it off a primary service, like "getTaxRateOn(100)" and it would return "10" as a constant. But that would get messed up by

26.02.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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05 - Feb 26, 2026, 11am
progress :) got the micro-cycle working :)

26.02.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Hexagonal - Ports & Adapters Architecture | Alistair Cockburn | SAG 2025
The Hexagonal - Ports & Adapters Architecture | Alistair Cockburn | SAG 2025 YouTube video by iSAQB

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChUl...

The Hexagonal - Ports & Adapters Architecture | Alistair Cockburn | SAG 2025

go get it y'all.

25.02.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Hexagonal - Ports & Adapters Architecture | Alistair Cockburn | SAG 2025
The Hexagonal - Ports & Adapters Architecture | Alistair Cockburn | SAG 2025 YouTube video by iSAQB

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChUl...

The Hexagonal - Ports & Adapters Architecture | Alistair Cockburn | SAG 2025

go get it y'all.

25.02.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i'm finally starting my experiments with Claude, but I need a bigger example than a coffee machine, ATM or Checkers to test out the ideas
who's got an app idea that's worthy of DDD and a couple of agents fighting over the code?

23.02.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Copenhagen! (DK generally): I'm looking to run a course in CPH or nearby in May. Various courses for programmers, POs, PMs, etc.
Looking for co happy to host it for 2 places in the course

- Who here might be interested?

oh - or connected in Norway? I'd like to get up there, too

23.02.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0