I'm excited to share the early access release of my upcoming book, Regenerative Software, which will be released in full early next year by O'Reilly, one of my all time favorite tech publishers! As a self-taught developer, I learned a lot of what was foundational to my career from early O'Reilly books on UNIX, Perl, sed, awk, etc. Thrilled to finally have one of these animal covers with my name on it. (link in thread)

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f you've been following my Phoenix Architecture work, this is the refined, polished and evolved (and edited by talented professionals) take on the topic. I've been building on these concepts for almost 20 years. The ideas here are both radical and obvious.
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I'd love to hear your thoughts if you have the time to take a look. Please share <3 oreilly.com/library/view/reg…

Regenerative Software

The assumptions underneath modern software development have quietly broken. Version control assumes humans make changes incrementally. Code review assumes a human authored the code.... - Selection...

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Congrats, @chadfowler!
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Thank you!
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When is the full release date coming out?
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Not exactly sure but early next year. Most of it is written but production takes some time. Early access release should be content complete in the next month or two
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Replying to @chadfowler
Oh, congrats mate!
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Thanks!!
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Nice. Who do you think should and shouldn’t read this books.
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I think any serious software developer should read it. Probably too advanced for a vibe coder depending on the field they're coming from.
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I think jev can play an interesting role here also for eve
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I have that sense as well but have been so busy this week i haven't been able to explore despite getting into the early access. Would love to hear your thoughts on specifically how you think it fits in!
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> The trouble was never in group memberships. It was in how the rest of the system found things. Chad, did you use AI to write the text?
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No, but did use to do some editing of my human slop :) It turns out btw I use a lot of emdashes and also write things like the above 😅
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getting the oreilly animal cover with your own name on it is a pretty sick full circle moment lmao
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ran into your blog via @obie - really great timing. looking forward to future reads around this topic. I had exhausted myself on platatlas.com and will revive it after I settle on some decisions.

Help with the emails you answer over and over. Your team decides; your organization keeps the...

A person decides with one click, and every decision is written down in a record your organization owns. On platatlas.com, suggestions appear only once someone who manages a playbook adds an AI agent...

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Replying to @chadfowler
full circle moment getting your own oreilly book after learning from those books is awesome
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So exciting!
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Very much looking forward to read it.
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