What Thorsten Ball thinks about design
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast. Wrote Writing an Interpreter in Go.
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4 dated positions, 2015 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Thorsten Ball has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe triad of PM/Design/Eng will disappear. It does not make any bit of sense anymore. Agile, SCRUM, whatever – dead
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 8th of 15 in this piece
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Their wordsA lot of UI exists because software can’t understand what you want. Menus, settings screens, dashboards, filters: much of it is a human-accessible API to a dumb machine. Smart machines need much less UI.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 14th of 15 in this piece
- 11 years earlier
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Our readingMeta-programming is usually unnecessary complexity that obscures what code is meant to do.
Their wordsBut there are a lot more cases in which meta-programming is unnecessary and additional baggage on top of the solution, which gets in the way of understanding what the code is supposed to do.
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Their wordsNot every elegant solution is straightforward, but "stupid" ones are, per definition, and can also be elegant.