Fragments: February 19

I try to limit my time on stage these days, but one exception this year is at DDD Europe. I’ve been involved in Domain-Driven Design, since its very earliest days, having the good fortune to be a sounding board for Eric Evans when he wrote his seminal book. It’ll be fun to be around the folks who continue to develop these ideas, which I think will probably be even more important in the AI-enabled age. ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ One of the dark sides of LLMs is that they can be both addictive and tiring to work with, which may mean we have to find a way to put a deliberate governor on our work. Steve Yegge posted a fine rant: I see these frenzied AI-native startups as an army of a million hopeful prolecats, each with an invisible vampiric imp perched on their shoulder, drinking, draining. And the bosses have them too. It’s the usual Yegge stuff, far longer than it needs to be, but we don’t care because the excessive loquaciousness is more than offset by entertainment value. The underlying point is deadl