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Luca Minudel
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Complexity, Lean, Agility/XP practitioner.
Ex-Ferrari F1 racing team. Ex-ThoughtWorks
Change Agent for hire.
Public speaker. Author.
Conegliano 🇮🇹⇒ Stockholm 🇸🇪 ⇒ London 🇬🇧

Mastodon: @lukadotnet@mstdn.social
Twitter (RIP): @lukadotnet
Vibe coding and Chat-oriented programming (CHOP) or more in general AI-assisted coding have the potential to rewrite the way we do professional software development

This should not mean we lose all the lessons already learned...
www.craiglarman.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Team Topologies Vs Feature Teams
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Here at the tech conference Outpace Conf (Manchester), I am exploring the trade-offs, pros and cons, and contextual fitness of two ways to organise teams. And sharing insights from the audience, based on their lived experience.
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Each AI-assisted coding style has different advantages, overcomes different existing bottlenecks, while revealing the next bottleneck.

... continue

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI
#FutureofTech #FutureofWork
#PromptEngineering #LLM
#AICoding #AIAssistedCoding #VibeCoding
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A challenge of ChOP (Chat-oriented Programming) as Andrej Karpathy put it, is to keep agents on the leash (the bottleneck is the code review).

Vibe Coding leads to a different bottleneck, merge conflicts

A list of heuristics to deal with insubordinate agents: www.linkedin.com/posts/lucami...
October 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I have recently completed this side-project:
A calm (even boring?) forum that drives Meaningful online Conversations, not views or likes
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=> www.wise-words.online
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With an export function to extract the conclusions for your team's decision log.
WiseWords - Meaningful online Conversations
www.wise-words.online
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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AI-ASSISTED CODING
ADOPTION STRATEGY
=== For organisations ===

The big AI players now speak more to markets and investors than engineers and technicians. Their certifications are often promotional, rather than real education and training.

... (continue)
October 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Reposted by Luca Minudel
did booking dot com suffer a data breach recently?

some "whatsapp business account" (+91 prefix) sent me a phishing message using the correct hotel name + dates

the domain is `verifyguest75541-booking.com`
September 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I'll be speaking at Outpace Conf in Manchester on the 16th of October. 1-day tech conf for Sr practitioners & leaders.

The Conf => outpaceconf.com

#Manchester
#Conference
#TEAMTOPOLOGIES
#FEATURETEAMS
Outpace Conf | Manchester
Forward-thinking talks grounded in practical experience. A one-day technology conference for senior practitioners and leaders in the North West.
outpaceconf.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Agile has always been about stepping out of your comfort zone crossing the valley of uncertainty/unknows to discover what's needed to succeed in your complex endeavour

Many have been fooled by misunderstandings & the snake oil salesmen's promise of safety, certainty, predictability, proven recipes
September 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
What I’ve learned so far while coding with an LLM genie:
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What's working for me

A) 1 goal => 1 chat => 1 one commit
B) Feedback beats "perfect" prompting
C) 3 strikes => switch model
D) My scratchpad > the LLM’s plan
E) Keystone question > roleplay
F) Follow my lead
August 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
When my AI coding assistant falls into a rabbit hole, what usually works is

=> PROVIDING RELEVANT LOGS

typically from the sub-system/component where things hit the wall.

Why doesn't my dumb AI assistant ask for it?

#AIAssistedCoding #LLM #GenerativeAI #AI
#AICoding #VibeCoding #GenieGoneCrazy
August 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
<< I learn and grow with each collaboration in the network and have made some great friends too. ... >> Tiani Jones

Below is an excerpt from the Interview with Tiani Jones, a Socio-Technologist and Keynote speaker.

... continue
July 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Even in the face of exponential change, there are ways to find a method in all this madness. Ways to find opportunities from the unexpected.

=> leanpub.com/theforgotten...
July 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I find myself doing what I was doing when pairing with junior devs - telling them to list first what they intend to do, and then proceed one small step at the time after clarifying what changes they intend to do and how - but now I do it with the LLMs instead.
July 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Reposted by Luca Minudel
From the Leanpub Podcast archive: Watch author Luca Minudel talk about complexity science and about his experience with Extreme Programming on the Ferrari F1 team: youtu.be/Mb9wrBtu7XI?... #books #ebooks #extremeprogramming #complexity
April 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reposted by Luca Minudel
Tackle elusive problems and thrive in the bleeding-edge Tech industry leanpub.com/b/tackleelus... by Luca Minudel is the featured bundle of ebooks 📚 on the Leanpub homepage! leanpub.com @lukadotnet #BusinessAndManagement #Leadership #books #ebooks #complexityscience
December 9, 2024 at 9:00 PM
<< I am very surprised at the low awareness of the difference between complicated and complex ... >> Sunil Mundra

Below is an excerpt from my 2nd Ed book, of the Interview with Sunil Mundra, author of Enterprise Agility and consultant specialising in Transformation, Agility and Change.

...
July 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Interview with Carol Mase: excerpts from the new 2nd Ed of my new book

Thanks to Carol Mase, social anthropologist and author, for accepting the interview 🙏
June 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In politics, activism, online, persuading & winning the argument overshadows the pursuit of deeper understanding.

Take the recent parliamentary Assisted Dying Bill debate: opposition centred on the risk of mistakes when allowing terminally ill patients the right to a peaceful dignified death.
June 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Inspired by Karl J. Lieberherr's book 'Adaptive Object-Oriented Software' (1995), where he builds on his work on the 'Law of Demeter' (Ian Holland, Karl J. Lieberherr, Arthur J. Riel; 1987) to search for ways to encapsulate objects graph and their traversal ...
June 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Code design

Here coding exercises to experience how tests can shape the design

=> (projects and solutions files of the C# version just updated to the current SDK-style project format) github.com/lucaminudel/...
TDDwithMockObjectsAndDesignPrinciples/TDDMicroExercises at master · lucaminudel/TDDwithMockObjectsAndDesignPrinciples
TDD with Mock Objects: Design Principles and Emergent Properties (C#, JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby) - lucaminudel/TDDwithMockObjectsAndDesignPrinciples
github.com
June 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Code design and design principles, code examples of the tensions between different principles

(projects and solutions files of the C# version just updated) => github.com/lucaminudel/...
GitHub - lucaminudel/tensions_and_synergies_between_design_principles: Code examples of tensions and synergies between object-oriented design principles
Code examples of tensions and synergies between object-oriented design principles - lucaminudel/tensions_and_synergies_between_design_principles
github.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The AI revolution is setting off a complete reinvention of work, redefining the business-tech relationship

We are deep in uncharted territory, pushing the envelope, and facing unavoidable unknowns...
June 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM