Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
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Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer.
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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2d ago
@chrisoldwood You've missed out. OK, mostly semicolons - you've mostly missed the semicolons… 😁
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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3d ago
@chrisoldwood @tdpauw @samir @mrksdck I have never sat down and worked it through, I admit. Apparently the API it uses is now defunct, but maybe we need to write a mock service folks can use? IMO it's still a great intro to London style TDD.
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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@thirstybear@agilodon.social
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3d ago
@chrisoldwood @tdpauw @samir @mrksdck Anyway - it still encourages a fat pyramid base of unit tests.
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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3d ago
@chrisoldwood @tdpauw @samir @mrksdck Strange. I read it as a instruction manual for outside-in TDD: Start on the outside, identify the next level in, write the unit tests while mock anything deeper (it likely hasn't been written yet), repeat until the feature is complete (as defined by an external acceptance test). Fill out edge cases as appropriate (don't try to test all these from the outside).
But granted it has been a while since I read it fully (erm…probably c.2010…).
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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3d ago
@chrisoldwood @tdpauw @samir @mrksdck Here we disagree (but probably not by much). These kinds of models confuse the issue by watering down the fundamental message that testing needs to shift left/down for structural reasons.
Without exception to date these fat-middle testing projects have poor internal structure because of the lack of unit tests.
The pyramid model holds IMO.
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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3d ago
@chrisoldwood @tdpauw @samir @mrksdck Agreed - acceptance tests need to be fast as well. And if you can be confident that your slow components can be in-memoried with an acceptable degree of risk, then do it.
One thing that I'm flummoxed by is how to in-memory AWS cloud services like databases… 🙂 Usually had to shrug our shoulders, pull in H2 equivalents and hope it matches AWS’ idea of Postgres compatibility closely enough.
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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3d ago
@samir @tdpauw @mrksdck “That looks like what we were doing before, ergo it is what we were doing before” 🤦♂️
Where I am we are fighting a rearguard action to stop the reappearance of a “Testing Department”. Not sure if we will succeed.
#waterfall
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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3d ago
@tdpauw @samir @mrksdck This is a growing antipattern in the field, but one that is easily sold to management.
“No need for those pesky low level unit tests written by developers - you only need outside in testing! Keep the devs coding, and let someone else write the tests! (SDETs)”
“No unit tests? No problem! It does that as well! Get that code coverage up!”
Finally I’ve heard “But it’s BDD!”
Grifters will grift 🤷♂️
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Apr 10, 2026
@LoganFive @Gargron And if you choose your colleagues well, it will be good coffee too 😁
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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@thirstybear@agilodon.social
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Apr 09, 2026
@glyph I’m banking on it for my retirement.
“Want your teams to learn how to develop software properly again? Got juniors who have never learned to be software engineers because AI stole their thinking ability?
I’m an experienced Tech Player Coach. Rescuing AI Slopware a speciality!”
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Mar 26, 2026
Just noticed in “What's new in IntelliJ 2026.1”
"Git worktrees: Work in parallel branches and hand one off to an agent while you keep moving in another.”
Nope. Nopety nope. No. Nope. NO.
FFS. When will people get the message about WIP?
<rolls out the standard gif>
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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@thirstybear@agilodon.social
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Mar 24, 2026
@AmyZenunim “Here's a hammer. Use it to bang in these screws, and it's your fault if it doesn't work” 🙄🤦♂️
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Chris Pitts
@thirstybear@agilodon.social
Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, team whisperer, mad cat man, mogfather 🐈, foster dad 🐈, ex-diver 🤿, biker 🏍️💨. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts 🎸. Old as the hills. I probably trained your CTO when she was a baby developer. Specialist in using HI (Human Intelligence). Located somewhere south of London, UK Admin & Bill Payer for Mastodon server agilodon.social. Donations welcome! # nobridge
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Mar 13, 2026
RE: @jeremymorgan@mastodon.social
“A formal way to talk to LLMs”
It’s code. Code to instruct a code generator to generate code instead of just writing the code directly
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