PinnedInThe Grand Game of Software EngineeringbyDr Stuart Woolley·Jun 5Self-Pleasuring Pontification as a Go-To-Market StrategySeminar, webinar, podcast, podinar. A genealogy of decline.A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedInThe Grand Game of Software EngineeringbyDr Stuart Woolley·May 2“Please State the Nature of the Software Emergency”Or, building an agent before the industry knew what to call it and how much to sell it for.A response icon4A response icon4
PinnedInThe Grand Game of Software EngineeringbyDr Stuart Woolley·Feb 17Agile to “AI” — The Most Expensive Pivot EverAnd why everyone’s a prompt engineer now.A response icon4A response icon4
PinnedInThe Grand Game of Software EngineeringbyDr Stuart Woolley·Mar 16, 2025The Combinatorial Bomb That Is “Vibe Coding”Or, how the realpolitik of software engineering just makes the copy/pasters look very foolish indeed.A response icon40A response icon40
InThe Grand Game of Software EngineeringbyDr Stuart Woolley·15h agoThe Cargo Cult of Fraud DetectionEverything looks like fraud when your only tool is a half-read Wikipedia article.A response icon2A response icon2
InThe Grand Game of Software EngineeringbyDr Stuart Woolley·2d agoSchrödinger’s TimesheetBooked hours exist in superposition, right up until they collapse into whatever is needed.A response icon3A response icon3
InThe Grand Game of Software EngineeringbyDr Stuart Woolley·5d agoObsessive Wattage DisorderIt’s just a number. I check it four hundred times a day regardless.A response icon1A response icon1
InThe Grand Game of Software EngineeringbyDr Stuart Woolley·Jul 7Innovation, Now Sold SeparatelyOr, how your bug fix became a technical advance at the very frontier of human knowledge.A response icon2A response icon2
InThe Grand Game of Software EngineeringbyDr Stuart Woolley·Jul 2The Circle Jerk of Thought LeadershipWhat happens when a real engineer brings competence to a slop contestA response icon3A response icon3
InThe Grand Game of Software EngineeringbyDr Stuart Woolley·Jun 25Manufactured Complexity As A Business ModelWhy the people who call your work difficult are always the people charging by the hour for it.
