Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

In Modeling State Transitions in Postgres, we replaced a status column on users with an append-only user_statuses table. That design gives us full history that can be queried efficiently for the most common cases.

But it introduces an edge case ...

For healthcare, fintech, pharma, insurance, and other regulated companies, implementation has gotten so much faster. What’s becoming even more valuable is judgment, knowing what to build, how fast to move, and where you can’t afford to be wrong.

For a long time, one of the most common reactions to a software team that wasn’t moving fast enough was to add more develope...

If your primary goal is to buy the largest number of development hours at the lowest possible rate, you probably shouldn’t hire thoughtbot. That has probably always been true, but AI makes it a lot more obvious.

Code is ridiculously easy to produce today. Good code is not, and good decisions definitely are not. Coding agents can build working software at a pace that w...

We’re excited to bring the thoughtbot Tech Leaders Meetup back to Amsterdam this October.

On October 6 at 6 pm CEST, we’ll be getting together at STACH café inside The Social Hub Amsterdam West for an informal evening of conversation, networking, drinks, and snacks.

Our Tech Leaders Meetups are designed to bring together peopl...

One sentence I’ve heard many times is: “Product Managers don’t need to be technical.”

I agreed with it for years. I still do - I don’t think PMs need to code. But over the last couple of years, I’ve changed my mind about something else: I do think PMs need to build technical literacy. Not because developers need help coding. Not because PMs should review pull requests...