I once worked under a CTO who was genuinely stunned by how little upfront thinking went into our software delivery. With a team of over a hundred developers, he asked me to solve a deceptively simple problem: get people to spend more time thinking before they started typing. At the time, it may have felt like swimming against the Agile tide. But looking at where the industry is headed now — with AI generating the bulk of the code and developers shifting into roles of system design and oversight — I think he’d be relieved. The pendulum is finally swinging back toward intentionality.

https://www.thecut.com/article/midlife-quiet-divorce.html

 

Seems like very good reading, but unfortunately is protected behind a paywall.
https://www.thecut.com/article/midlife-quiet-divorce.html

Is this the link you intended to attach? It appears that it is not related to your post, speaking about marital relationships vs actual software development.

 

Seems like very good reading, but unfortunately is protected behind a paywall.
https://www.thecut.com/article/midlife-quiet-divorce.html

Is this the link you intended to attach? It appears that it is not related to your post, speaking about marital relationships vs actual software development.

Freudian slip?

 

Yep, dumb link. The piece was on that site, when I went there there I recall there was indeed a paywall so I did a "block element" and got the article to eventually get displayed, so my bad.

 

https://medium.com/@craig_32726/agile-is-out-architecture-is-back-7586910ab810

Just click top right X in any subscription dialog that comes up.

Seems it was published in The Cut and Medium.