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The Rise of Centaur Programming: AI and Human Collaboration

Posted on August 14, 2025 by Duncan Butler

We’ve All Been Vibe-Coding We’ve all been vibe-coding—riding the wave of AI-assisted development with flashes of brilliance and bursts of productivity. But as the dust settles, it’s clear: this approach doesn’t scale. It doesn’t architect business-grade applications. AI can’t replace … Continue reading →

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Transform Traditional Coding with AI Support

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Duncan Butler

AI can scaffold ideas instantly. But without structure, it can also generate spaghetti faster than you can untangle it. That’s why discipline isn’t optional—it’s the difference between collaboration and chaos. Continue reading →

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TDD With Agents

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Duncan Butler

Back in what now is probably in computer terms the mist of time, we used to do test driven development. We engaged in deliberate practice using code katas. This helped us improve our keyboard, refactoring, and coding skills. Well with … Continue reading →

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Optimizing Project Structure with Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Posted on June 3, 2025 by Duncan Butler

Copilot has become a great tool for working with code. I have found myself moving away from Visual Studio. I am working more and more in Visual Studio Code. This shift can feel strange for dot net projects. You also … Continue reading →

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Streamline Development: The Benefits of the MAP Stack

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Duncan Butler

Let’s have a chat about something that’s been quietly transforming my day-to-day as a developer: the MAP Stack. The MAP Stack is one of those rare shifts that actually delivers on the promise of making life easier, not just different. … Continue reading →

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Terraform, LocalStack and Structurizr

Posted on December 10, 2023 by Duncan Butler

I have been busy trying out some new to me ways of working and finding ways to document my code and repositories. So here is the first try-out of the LocalStack tutorial, creating an s3 static website, with the infrastructure … Continue reading →

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Setting up for Rust development on windows 11 WSL2

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Duncan Butler

Most of this is going to come from other sites and blog posts, along with my own notes on things I found diffecult. So the aim is to setup a development environment on windows 11 WSL2 for I think Rust … Continue reading →

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Failed to build gem native extension on Windows

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Duncan Butler

So there I was lovely new computer, I installed Ruby 193, old tests which needed it, don’t ask, and of cause the ruby dev kit, then a quick bundle install and I will be ready to go, but instead I … Continue reading →

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Adding An Id!

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Duncan Butler

Ready to start again with Red? Looking back at our requirements next I see that the basket should have a unique id, at the moment I have no clue about where I am going to store the baskets so there … Continue reading →

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Mocks in Ruby and Zen Test on windows with Growl

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Duncan Butler

These are notes mainly for me, so excuse the jumping around of topics in this post, I have been re-reading the book “Continuous Testing” by Ben Randy and Rod Coffin. The Twitter gem used in the first example has changed … Continue reading →

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