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Still, no silver bullet

August 24, 2025

I recently re-read the seminal book by Fred Brooks about software engineering, entitled "The Mythical Man-Month" or MM-M for brevity. Specifically, I read the paper version of the 20th anniversary, which was revised and reprinted in 1995, after the first edition of 1975. I did that on purpose, firstly because it is always a fantastic read, and secondly to understand how much of its contents is still valid today, exactly thirty years later since its last revision.

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Enterprise software systems, or how diamonds never came from s*it

February 23, 2025

Some time ago, I eventually listened on YouTube to a year-old interview by Guido Penta with Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez) about the art of development in the current age. I agree with some points, specifically that in many cases, multiple developers work for their whole work life on boring/marginal activities. One of them, IMHO, is the entire front-end effort in developing web-based applications, a development task that nowadays could be broadly and proficiently managed mainly via AI to reduce human intervention to minimal parts and architectures.

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