Skip to content
Artwork for Empower Apps
Empower Apps · Monday · 1 hr 12 min

Do the Wrong Thing Much Faster with Graham Lee

Graham Lee returns to chat about what it takes to become a software centaur: using AI to get better at the craft, not just faster. We get into why the job was never about typing code, meat proxies and Jevons paradox, his catalog of interaction patterns for AI-augmented development, why a model shouldn't mark its own homework, and Axminster, his UML-based macOS app that gives LLMs a design to follow. Guest Chiron Codex Chiron Codex Patreon Chiron Codex Agent Skills - GitHub Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers podcast Software Craftsmanship's Consulting Detective Related Links Axminster: AI-Augmented Software Design Axminister - Mac App Store Patterns in AI Augmented Software Development - iOSDevUK Software Centaurs white paper (PDF) Reasons to dislike AI coding Replacing MCP with Standard Filesystem Tools Is spec-driven development the end of agile? Episode 64: Using Pattern Languages for Object-Oriented Programs Object-Oriented Programming the Easy Way Related Episodes The More You Know with Stewart Lynch Skynet Came and Automated Everything with Jared Sorge Practical Agents with Donny Wals Everyone Thinks They're Good at Prompting with Joe Fabisevich Actually Really Useful Objective-C Today with Graham Lee Chapters Watch Click here to watch a video of this episode. Transcript Click here to view the episode transcript. Support the Show ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters work design Steven Lipton Welcome new supporters: Social Media LinkedIn - @leogdion GitHub - @brightdigit GitHub - @leogdion Mastodon - @leogdion@c.im YouTube - @brightdigit X - @leogdion X - @brightdigit Credits Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

0:00-1:12:22

transcript

No transcript — this publisher did not publish one.

show notes

Graham Lee returns to chat about what it takes to become a software centaur: using AI to get better at the craft, not just faster. We get into why the job was never about typing code, meat proxies and Jevons paradox, his catalog of interaction patterns for AI-augmented development, why a model shouldn't mark its own homework, and Axminster, his UML-based macOS app that gives LLMs a design to follow.

Guest

Related Links

Related Episodes

Chapters


Watch
Click here to watch a video of this episode.


Transcript
Click here to view the episode transcript.


Support the Show

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★  

Thanks to our supporters: Thanks to our monthly supporters

  • work design
  • Steven Lipton
 
Welcome new supporters:


Social Media

Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

links33