Tudor Girba
@tudorgirba.com
CEO feenk.com
We modernize legacy systems.
Through Moldable Development.
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Through Moldable Development.
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Tudor Girba
@tudorgirba.com
· Mar 13
Thoroughly enjoyed working with Tudor Girba on writing chapter 4 of Rewilding Software Engineering : flexing those thinking muscles. Some fairly meaty issues in this chapter. Hopefully, as with mapping, others will find it useful.
Chapter 4: Flexing those thinking muscles
medium.com/feenk/rewild...
Chapter 4: Flexing those thinking muscles
medium.com/feenk/rewild...
Here it is. The fourth chapter of the Rewinding Software Engineering book that @swardley.bsky.social and I are writing in the open.
It covers quite some ground: from the need to make systems explainable to the characteristics our development environments should have.
Let us know what you think.
It covers quite some ground: from the need to make systems explainable to the characteristics our development environments should have.
Let us know what you think.
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When I am elected, I will read the code DOGE wrote. I will find out how they stole your data and what they have done with it.
And then I will tell you
And then I will tell you
September 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
When I am elected, I will read the code DOGE wrote. I will find out how they stole your data and what they have done with it.
And then I will tell you
And then I will tell you
When all code is being created by AI, what is the bottleneck?
“We still should review and make sense of it”
Ok. Want to know a secret?
“Secret? Yes.”
Making sense of existing code has always been the bottleneck.
“We still should review and make sense of it”
Ok. Want to know a secret?
“Secret? Yes.”
Making sense of existing code has always been the bottleneck.
September 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
When all code is being created by AI, what is the bottleneck?
“We still should review and make sense of it”
Ok. Want to know a secret?
“Secret? Yes.”
Making sense of existing code has always been the bottleneck.
“We still should review and make sense of it”
Ok. Want to know a secret?
“Secret? Yes.”
Making sense of existing code has always been the bottleneck.
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Ready to change how you think about software development? @tudorgirba.com & Kris Jenkins showcase Glamorous Toolkit & discuss Moldable Development.
Hands-on Demo of Glamorous Toolkit & Moldable Development • Tudor Girba & Kris Jenkins • GOTO 2024
This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph
https://gotocph.com
Tudor Girba - Software Environmentalist and CEO of feenk @tudorgirba
Kris Jenkins - Developer Advocate,…
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Ready to change how you think about software development? @tudorgirba.com & Kris Jenkins showcase Glamorous Toolkit & discuss Moldable Development.
We can only perceive software systems through tools.
This makes tools essential for anything we do with software systems, and in particular for software engineering.
And we should pay attention to our tools' characteristics as they will influence how we are going to think.
This makes tools essential for anything we do with software systems, and in particular for software engineering.
And we should pay attention to our tools' characteristics as they will influence how we are going to think.
September 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We can only perceive software systems through tools.
This makes tools essential for anything we do with software systems, and in particular for software engineering.
And we should pay attention to our tools' characteristics as they will influence how we are going to think.
This makes tools essential for anything we do with software systems, and in particular for software engineering.
And we should pay attention to our tools' characteristics as they will influence how we are going to think.
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More of this kind of reporting, please!
September 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
More of this kind of reporting, please!
Neat
September 1, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Neat
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If you're catching up on the horrors of AI-induced psychosis, LLM girlfriends, and people waving ChatGPT at experts to tell experts they are wrong because the all-knowing LLM says so... This article I wrote in May both predicts this slide and shows a way out. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
AI Is Not Your Friend
How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it
www.theatlantic.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
If you're catching up on the horrors of AI-induced psychosis, LLM girlfriends, and people waving ChatGPT at experts to tell experts they are wrong because the all-knowing LLM says so... This article I wrote in May both predicts this slide and shows a way out. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Perspective
Weird how all of these young far right guys think Hitler should have won the war
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2
Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Perspective
Recently, I gave a talk in which I introduced Moldable Development through a parallel to Test-driven Development based an extensive case study of an extraordinary organization: Lifeware.
lepiter.io/feenk/moldab...
lepiter.io/feenk/moldab...
Moldable Development at Lifeware
At Craft Conference 2025, I gave a first public talk in which I introduced Moldable Development through a parallel to Test-driven Development based an extensive case study: Lifeware.
lepiter.io
August 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Recently, I gave a talk in which I introduced Moldable Development through a parallel to Test-driven Development based an extensive case study of an extraordinary organization: Lifeware.
lepiter.io/feenk/moldab...
lepiter.io/feenk/moldab...
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38M! 🎉
August 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
38M! 🎉
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Covid vaccination saved ~2.5 million lives between 2020-2024
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Lives and life-Years Saved From COVID-19 Vaccination
This comparative effectiveness study analyses the number of lives and life-years saved worldwide among those who had been vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2024 years.
jamanetwork.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Covid vaccination saved ~2.5 million lives between 2020-2024
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Funny!
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
July 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Funny!
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1/ I'm feeling real pain at the cuts to Indiana public universities, especially IU, especially cogsci. These are some of the biggest brains in cogsci and edupsych in the world, but why do *I* care? I'll tell you what they've done *for me, personally*. ↵
www.ipm.org/news-section...
www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
1/ I'm feeling real pain at the cuts to Indiana public universities, especially IU, especially cogsci. These are some of the biggest brains in cogsci and edupsych in the world, but why do *I* care? I'll tell you what they've done *for me, personally*. ↵
www.ipm.org/news-section...
www.ipm.org/news-section...
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The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.
Authors petition publishers to curtail their use of AI
The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.
n.pr
June 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.
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Nothing to something is probably easier now. But something to something good is still very hard.
June 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Nothing to something is probably easier now. But something to something good is still very hard.
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It's like piloting.
Most planes fly on autopilot, even land on it.
But we are now at a place where a random passenger will decide that they can now fly the plane.
And many times it'll work out fine - for a while.
So the autopilot salesforce tried to sell the "no pilot needed" concept.
Most planes fly on autopilot, even land on it.
But we are now at a place where a random passenger will decide that they can now fly the plane.
And many times it'll work out fine - for a while.
So the autopilot salesforce tried to sell the "no pilot needed" concept.
June 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
It's like piloting.
Most planes fly on autopilot, even land on it.
But we are now at a place where a random passenger will decide that they can now fly the plane.
And many times it'll work out fine - for a while.
So the autopilot salesforce tried to sell the "no pilot needed" concept.
Most planes fly on autopilot, even land on it.
But we are now at a place where a random passenger will decide that they can now fly the plane.
And many times it'll work out fine - for a while.
So the autopilot salesforce tried to sell the "no pilot needed" concept.
The value of your software system today is given by its external functionality. Tomorrow, its value is given by how well you can adapt it. This depends on your ability to understand the system’s internals enough to guide its evolution.
Invest in this ability as if your business depends on it.
Invest in this ability as if your business depends on it.
June 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The value of your software system today is given by its external functionality. Tomorrow, its value is given by how well you can adapt it. This depends on your ability to understand the system’s internals enough to guide its evolution.
Invest in this ability as if your business depends on it.
Invest in this ability as if your business depends on it.
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Harvey Weinstein has been convicted of sex crimes for a second time in New York. His retrial followed a 2020 conviction in New York, which was overturned on procedural grounds.
Jury finds Harvey Weinstein guilty in sex crimes case
Weinstein's 2020 conviction on sex crimes in New York was overturned last year. In a new trial, jurors heard allegations from three women.
n.pr
June 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Harvey Weinstein has been convicted of sex crimes for a second time in New York. His retrial followed a 2020 conviction in New York, which was overturned on procedural grounds.
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Prompt injection means email viruses are back. A researcher found a security vulnerability where you send an email with hidden instructions which when CoPilot scans the email, executes and then hides the source of the instructions.
It took Microsoft 5 months to fix the issue.
It took Microsoft 5 months to fix the issue.
Microsoft Copilot flaw raises urgent questions for any business deploying AI agents
Microsoft fixed the Copilot flaw, but researchers warn the real danger lies in how all AI agents are built.
fortune.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Prompt injection means email viruses are back. A researcher found a security vulnerability where you send an email with hidden instructions which when CoPilot scans the email, executes and then hides the source of the instructions.
It took Microsoft 5 months to fix the issue.
It took Microsoft 5 months to fix the issue.
I was so nervous when I gave this talk. I showed several pieces from our work at feenk that we've never shown before:
- A story that now appears in the Rewilding Software Engineering book I am writing with @swardley.bsky.social about assessing the slowness of a data pipeline.
1/
- A story that now appears in the Rewilding Software Engineering book I am writing with @swardley.bsky.social about assessing the slowness of a data pipeline.
1/
Programming is changing: tests, infra, and now tools are code. Moldable Development lets you shape tools as you code. Watch @tudorgirba.com’s demo with Glamorous Toolkit:
Moldable Development: Programming Through Custom Tools • Tudor Girba • GOTO 2024
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOcphhttps://gotocph.comTudor Girba - Software Environmentalist and CEO of feenkRESOURCES...
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I was so nervous when I gave this talk. I showed several pieces from our work at feenk that we've never shown before:
- A story that now appears in the Rewilding Software Engineering book I am writing with @swardley.bsky.social about assessing the slowness of a data pipeline.
1/
- A story that now appears in the Rewilding Software Engineering book I am writing with @swardley.bsky.social about assessing the slowness of a data pipeline.
1/
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Programming is changing: tests, infra, and now tools are code. Moldable Development lets you shape tools as you code. Watch @tudorgirba.com’s demo with Glamorous Toolkit:
Moldable Development: Programming Through Custom Tools • Tudor Girba • GOTO 2024
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOcphhttps://gotocph.comTudor Girba - Software Environmentalist and CEO of feenkRESOURCES...
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Programming is changing: tests, infra, and now tools are code. Moldable Development lets you shape tools as you code. Watch @tudorgirba.com’s demo with Glamorous Toolkit:
To vibe code or not to vibe code? That's not quite the question. There is a middle ground that does not require us to suspend our ability to understand and make decisions about our system. It's almost vibe coding but not quite. It's AI-enabled software engineering.
youtu.be/-P83DjtSFvk?...
youtu.be/-P83DjtSFvk?...
(Almost) Vibe Coding a Model with gt4llm in Glamorous Toolkit
YouTube video by Glamorous Toolkit
youtu.be
June 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
To vibe code or not to vibe code? That's not quite the question. There is a middle ground that does not require us to suspend our ability to understand and make decisions about our system. It's almost vibe coding but not quite. It's AI-enabled software engineering.
youtu.be/-P83DjtSFvk?...
youtu.be/-P83DjtSFvk?...
To vibe, or not to vibe, that is the question.
Find the answer in chapter 5 of the Rewilding Software Engineering book @swardley.bsky.social and I are writing in the open:
medium.com/feenk/chapte...
Find the answer in chapter 5 of the Rewilding Software Engineering book @swardley.bsky.social and I are writing in the open:
medium.com/feenk/chapte...
Rewilding software engineering
Chapter 5: Different folks for different strokes
medium.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
To vibe, or not to vibe, that is the question.
Find the answer in chapter 5 of the Rewilding Software Engineering book @swardley.bsky.social and I are writing in the open:
medium.com/feenk/chapte...
Find the answer in chapter 5 of the Rewilding Software Engineering book @swardley.bsky.social and I are writing in the open:
medium.com/feenk/chapte...
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Checked a Macron rumor this morning using SIFT Toolbox, and once again was impressed with how much difference a multi-lingual fact-checking tool can make.
Cross-Language Fact-Checking Is Pretty Cool
One nice thing with SIFT Toolbox compared to search is that it inherits the language capabilities of the underlying models
mikecaulfield.substack.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Checked a Macron rumor this morning using SIFT Toolbox, and once again was impressed with how much difference a multi-lingual fact-checking tool can make.