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| Jacques de Vos Reflections on Software | https://jacdevos.github.io/ |
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| “Loop engineering” is process automation with agents 15 Jul '26 | Essay TL;DR “Loop engineering” brings a shift beyond prompting agents one turn at a time, but behind the new term, there seem to be simple and familiar process automation principles at... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2026-07-15/loops-are-just-process-triggers |
| BDD for Spec-driven Agentic Development 13 May '26 | Lightning Talk Agentic software is changing how we build. As agentic coding becomes more common, how good your prompts specify the behaviour you want is a key to good agent dev outcomes.... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2026-05-13/executable-markdown-specs-agentic-coding |
| The AI-Native 2/20 Software Product Peloton 1 Apr '26 | Thought Experiment LLMs can deliver massive individual productivity gains, especially for senior engineers, and prior ideas around software product team structures now seem to create bottlenecks. I haven’t seen many ideas on... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2026-04-01/the-ai-native-2-20-software-product-peloton |
| LLMs as the new processor 4 Nov '24 | Code Collective Talk This talk introduced LLMs to software developers as a new kind of processor with remarkable capabilities, framed within the history of computing. It began with a brief overview of the... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2024-11-04/llm-genai-as-new-processor |
| Software best practice is dead 21 Nov '17 | ASAS and SDN Netherlands Talk Treating your mature enterprise product carelessly will get your business into deep trouble, but gold plating a new product, before you are sure that you are building the right thing,... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2017-11-21/software-best-practice-is-dead |
| Understanding software engineering with equations 9 Oct '17 | Codemotion Berlin Talk In order to escape the common traps of software development, teams and managers need to understand the consequences of their decisions - they need to understand the dynamics of software... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2017-10-09/Understanding-software-engineering-with-equations |
| What is software product design? 10 Mar '17 | DevConf Talk Although software engineering has become crucial to our modern society, it is still a new and often misunderstood discipline. One of the most harmful misconceptions is that programming and testing... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2017-03-10/we-are-all-product-designers |
| Hybrid vs native mobile tech stack 16 Jul '16 | JSinSA Talk Choosing the wrong mobile tech stack sets you up for a world of pain. But how do you select the right one from a plethora of current options? As an... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2016-07-16/Hybrid-vs-native-mobile |
| Rescuing Legacy Software from Impending Doom 22 Jun '16 | Agile Washington DC, Agile Australia Dealing with an ageing code base is one of the hardest challenges that software development teams face. Legacy code bases can slow teams to a crawl, and therefore it is... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2016-06-22/rescuing-legacy-code |
| Essential software engineering reading list 12 Mar '16 Here is a list of classic articles and books that have informed my thinking on software engineering. This list does not include my list of (great) programming, philosophy or management... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2016-03-12/essential-software-engineering-reading-list |
| How to become a thought leader in software 12 Aug '15 “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo “Am I going to be bored or enlightened?” was the question I asked before attending Agile... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2015-08-12/how-to-become-a-thought-leader-in-software |
| Self-help books meta-summary 31 Dec '14 As a software engineering coach part of my job is to help teams become more effective. To this end, it is sometimes useful to employ concepts from self-help books, but... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2014-12-31/self-help-books-meta-summary |
| Is fast typing required for developers? 6 Dec '14 I changed my mind on this recently, and here’s why. There is a sentiment that developers have to type really fast because we “type code for a living”. I’ve long... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2014-12-06/developer-typing-skills |
| The origin of bug, loop and patch 3 Aug '14 Bug, loop and patch - these words have been part of programmer lingo for decades. On my recent trip to the US east coast I stumbled across their origin: The... | https://jacdevos.github.io/2014-08-03/The_origin_of_bug_loop_and_patch |
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