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AI Skeptics, Generalists, and the Precision-Accuracy Paradox in Software Teams
Exploring why critical thinking beats blind faith in AI adoption, the difference between building things right and building the right things, and what truly makes a generalist valuable.
13.01.2026
Refactoring Newsletter 2025 Retrospective: AI, Product Engineering, and the Changing Tech Landscape
A year-end review of the biggest trends in engineering leadership: AI's cognitive costs, the rise of product engineering, platform teams, and what elite engineering organizations look like today.
31.12.2025
Shadcn's Evolution, The Myth of Technical Debt, and AI's Impact on Development
This edition covers the latest Shadcn UI update, a critical look at the concept of technical debt, the launch of Vibe Pocket for mobile AI agents, and a reflection on how AI is reshaping engineering priorities.
24.12.2025
Refactoring Unveils a New Brand Identity
Luca Rossi walks through the journey of Refactoring's brand evolution, moving from an accidental identity to a deliberate and cohesive system that reflects its core values of simplicity, thoroughness, and a human-centric approach to engineering leadership.
24.12.2025
Everything as Code, Code Hotspots, and Process Notifications
A look at the benefits of an 'everything as code' approach, how to prioritize tech debt by focusing on code 'hotspots', and a strategy for using notifications to improve team accountability.
22.12.2025
Behavioral Signals, Token-Efficient APIs, and the Last Frameworks
Refactoring.fm roundup: how to prep for behavioral signals, designing token-efficient APIs in the LLM era, and why AI may make React the last major framework of its kind.
08.12.2025
AI Adoption in Engineering Teams: Research Insights from 400+ Teams
Deep dive into how engineering teams are actually adopting AI tools, revealing the gap between personal and team adoption.
05.12.2025
Minimum Viable Testing Strategy, Interview Design That Works, and Growing Engineers in the AI Era
A practical testing cheat sheet prioritizing integration tests, designing interviews that mirror real work, and adapting junior engineer development as AI changes the learning progression.
01.12.2025
Building Product Development Teams with Rob Zuber from CircleCI
CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber discusses building effective product engineering teams, the standardization vs flexibility tradeoff, and lessons learned from scaling software organizations.
28.11.2025
AI Transforming Software Engineering - Martin Fowler on Non-Determinism and Refactoring
Martin Fowler discusses how AI introduces non-determinism to software development, the importance of testing and refactoring in the LLM era, and timeless engineering skills.
19.11.2025
Why Software Development Slows: The Options vs Features Tradeoff
Kent Beck explores why development velocity degrades over time through a novel visualization framework, showing how features consume optionality and how tidying can restore it.
19.11.2025
React 19 Beta, TypeScript 5.5, Vite i nowe narzędzia developerskie - przegląd tygodnia
Omówienie najważniejszych nowości z świata frontend developmentu: React 19 Beta z Actions i nowym API, TypeScript 5.5 Beta z inferred type predicates, oraz inne ciekawe narzędzia i koncepty.
05.12.2024