Ian CackettOn Ten Years SoberBut something had changed. I took a sip of the luke-warm beer, put down the glass bottle, and walked away from alcohol for good.5 min read·Feb 7, 2024--2--2
Ian CackettWe Need to Talk (More Seriously) About AIHYPE, HOPE and HUBRIS — That’s a little how the past six months have felt, as we explored the latest wave of advances in AI…8 min read·Jul 30, 2023----
Ian CackettWhy AI Code Generation Doesn’t Spell the End for Software EngineersIf, like me, you’re a software engineer, you will undoubtedly have heard that our days are numbered.8 min read·Apr 23, 2023--3--3
Ian CackettSoftware Developers, Code Should Not Be Your Only Point of CollaborationTeams that learn to collaborate on ideas and abstractions, rather than just code, have far more leverage to align their collective…10 min read·Aug 7, 2022----
Ian CackettWhy We Shouldn’t Design Software the Same Way We Design Physical ThingsIf our forwards-facing designs for software can be so misleading, why do we cling to them?5 min read·Feb 22, 2022----
Ian CackettWhy the Most Useful Software Is Built BackwardsThe most useful software tends to be built backwards via an iterative merging, coalescing & refactoring of smaller results which get used.5 min read·Oct 3, 2021--3--3
Ian CackettThe Internet of Things… That Are Crying out for a Better UI/UXI guess we could potentially connect most devices to the internet. Whether we should or not is another question.6 min read·Jan 3, 2019--5--5
Ian CackettBalance: Why Binary Decisions Are Often Sub-Optimal in Software EngineeringAs software engineers, we tend to make rather binary decisions, to favour clear-cut outcomes and black-or-white choices. I guess it’s in…2 min read·Dec 13, 2018----
Ian CackettinUX CollectiveWhy UX mockups shouldn’t be the primary focus when defining new product featuresI get it… We all like something we can point at and that’s why most discussions about new software products and features tend to focus upon…3 min read·Sep 22, 2018--1--1
Ian CackettSoftware Teams: Autonomous or Tightly-Aligned?(Written jointly by Ian Cackett & Sasha Bilton)4 min read·Aug 28, 2018----
