Common Sense for Coding With Agents - Reading List
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From my blog
Articles
- MinimumCD - Continuous Delivery definition and guide
- ACM Code of Ethics
- Test Desiderata - Kent Beck
- Test Desiderata 2.0 - Emily Bache
- Functional Architecture
- Why Software Factories Fail - Dexter Horthy, HumanLayer
- 30 to 70 PRs a Day: How We Managed to Not Wreck Our Systems - Liz Fong-Jones, Honeycomb
- Stories from the factory floor: building a software factory on our scariest code - Alexis Georges, LaunchDarkly
The dark factory is a trap. This is the lesson I most want other engineering leaders to take away, because it cost me the most time. It’s also the whole difference between the dark factory and the healthy AI software factory. Chasing the dark factory ideal—where agents are fully autonomous and humans are looped out—led directly into what I call the autonomy trap. You end up doing Rube Goldberg development: spending all your time building an elaborate machine, where this agent is checking that agent and this thing is triggering that thing. You’re trying to perfect the contraption instead of getting to the actual goal, and it’s incredibly easy to get sucked into. — Alexis Georges, LaunchDarkly
Papers
- Ironies of Automation - Dr. Lisanne Bainbridge, 1983
- AI Gold Rush 2 Versus AI Realism: Overplaying Envisioned Benefits, Underplaying Real Risks - Michael Rayo, Dane Morey, Tor Grøtan, and David Woods, 2026
- Artificial Intelligence in the Firm: Bottlenecks in Software Production - Fiona Chen and James Stratton (Harvard), 2026. Studied 300 million work events across 718 firms.
Books
- Observability Engineering (2nd edition) - Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda, 2026
- Site Reliability Engineering (2nd edition) - Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Christof Leng, David Huska, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Richard Murphy, 2026
- Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble and Dave Farley
- Modern Software Engineering - Dave Farley
- Working Effectively With Legacy Code - Michael Feathers
- The Psychology of Software Teams - Dr. Cat Hicks, 2026
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