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23 Jul
Should we still design code for humans?
AI-ready data, why and how?
22 Jul
Closing the context gap: An ontology + LLM approach to data modernization
Token bleed: Why AI consumption velocity is your next chief operational risk
21 Jul
Product design in the age of AI: Designing non-deterministic systems
20 Jul
Navigating AI overenthusiasm in financial services
17 Jul
Modularity and mortality: The importance of ‘skin in the game’
16 Jul
The commodity illusion and the new geopolitics of compute
Path to production for enterprise AI: Moving beyond the experimentation trap
14 Jul
The primitive paradox: Reclaiming software discipline in an agentic world
13 Jul
AI-assisted migration: Critical lessons from the modernization frontlines
10 Jul
Context decay is quietly killing your features before they go live
The operating system for enterprise AI
9 Jul
The zero-cost fallacy: Open source software in the agentic era
8 Jul
Bridging the gap between platform engineering and business value
Are non-functional requirements the missing guardrail for AI-generated code?
7 Jul
Caught between ephemerality and materiality
Sovereign AI addresses the wrong dependency
6 Jul
Performance engineering in agentic AI systems
3 Jul
The discovery dilemma: Using AI to focus research where it matters
29 Jun
Reshaping the economics of software development: Building a future-ready core with Al/works™
25 Jun
The code review is dead; long live the code review
Code you don't understand is a liability you can't defend
Autonomous AI is here, but are enterprises ready?
The silent run on the bank: Why 2026 is the year of the “stranger core”
23 Jun
Is developer experience dead?
The local inference boundary: Reflections on Apple’s AFM 3 and token economics
22 Jun
Build an AI knowledge fabric for your organization
19 Jun
Is AI unbundling expertise?
How to build Transaction Foundation Models in Banking and Payments
18 Jun
Generative ref-AI-ctoring: Solving tech debt in the age of AI
Evaluating AI agents in production: A practical framework
Governing the autonomous enterprise: The Agentic Scope of Authority Framework
17 Jun
Why ontologies matter, why they fail and how to build them anyway
16 Jun
Enabling evolutionary database development: Part 3
The dangers of token usage billing
15 Jun
Is a codeless future an illusion?
12 Jun
Your agent skill is not an anti-corruption layer
Enabling evolutionary database development: Database branching with Lakebase (Part two)
The reality of agentic commerce: Moving from passive AI Copilots to autonomous machine payments
11 Jun
Why government agencies need structural modernization before AI adoption
10 Jun
Navigating today’s AI token crisis
8 Jun
Legacy modernization in insurance: Why insurers should act now
Balancing innovation and quality in software governance
5 Jun
The paradox of acceleration: Overcoming AI-induced decision fatigue and business bottlenecks
Does every feature we build with AI need a token budget?
Backstage with Lakebase | Part 3: The one-query FinOps solution
4 Jun
Leading by example, even through uncertainty
Is AI governance even the right conversation?
Enabling evolutionary database development: Database branching with Lakebase
3 Jun
Supervisory engineering: Orchestrating software’s ‘middle loop’
Claude outage, June 2026: Reckoning with AI’s increasing status as infrastructure
2 Jun
Modern engineering is a flow game
The power of Transaction Foundation Models: Building the unified intelligence layer for payments
29 May
Wealth management renaissance: Adapting for a future of alternatives
Adapting to the alternative investment wave in the Middle East
The VibeSec reckoning: Why prompting your AI to be secure isn't enough
28 May
Cognitive debt is a real organizational risk: Don’t ignore it
26 May
Semantic drift and semantic integrity: Stewarding meaning in the age of AI
Beyond B2B and B2C: Preparing for the business-to-agents (B2A) era
22 May
From backend support to AI orchestrators: Reimagining the way the Digital Workplace team operates
Winning in the era of autonomous AI shoppers
21 May
Hexagonal architecture explained through a practical example
After Anthropic Mythos: The banking and finance sectors’ next steps
20 May
Bridging the gap: Enabling banks to win in the tokenized economy
Modernise without the big bang: Governed AI as a delivery safeguard for legacy public services
19 May
Tackling the AI value delivery paradox
18 May
The agent unconscious: Embedding organizational memory in AI
15 May
Backstage with Databricks Lakebase: Bringing the operational database into Unity Catalog
14 May
Beyond the carbon estimate: Why data quality wins
Beyond the prototype: The reality of delivering generative AI products
13 May
AI vendors are trying to bridge the governance gap: For adopters, this is a risk
Harness engineering and agent feedback: Exploring AI coding sensors
10 May
Diversity doesn’t just “happen”
8 May
Backstage with Lakebase: Exploring the concept with Databricks
This week in AI | 8 May
The agentic journey from idea to product
Capability gap or a visibility problem?
7 May
GitHub Copilot and me: The evolution of my partnership with a coding assistant
29 Apr
Escaping the platform labyrinth: A product guide to beating cognitive load
28 Apr
Why AI is raising the stakes of the software engineering craft
The future of secured lending in the UK and Europe: From bottlenecks to AI-driven growth
27 Apr
Building a mission-led government: Three essential actions for delivering lasting change
Agentic AI for data management
24 Apr
Drowning in dashboards, starving for clarity: Why Observability is a leadership choice
21 Apr
How to implement effective review gates for AI-assisted development
20 Apr
Cybernetics and the “human-on-the-loop” in agentic coding
16 Apr
Anthropic Mythos Preview: Faster patching isn't enough
Data products: Closing the gap between technical excellence and business value
15 Apr
The cognitive demands of AI novelty
Macro trends in the tech industry | April 2026
14 Apr
Of women in STEM and other mythological creatures
How agentic AI will change customer experience design forever
9 Apr
How the Datadog MCP server can help improve IT operational insight and observability
The shifted operation model and MSPs in the AI Age
The predictability gap in digital public infrastructure
3 Apr
How to perform a structured evaluation of AI conversational solutions
31 Mar
Rethinking leadership: How a sabbatical transformed a CIO into a coding intern [part two]
Navigating the AI imperative: A strategic framework for AI enterprise adoption and risk management
Rethinking leadership: How a sabbatical transformed a CIO into a coding intern [part one]
Solving for user diversity : An unified platform experience
How to keep large projects on track with business capability mapping
27 Mar
The North Star before the map: Putting objectives before structural changes in digital transformation
Reimagining API modernization with deterministic AI-assisted engineering
25 Mar
From months to days: Radical acceleration for insurance data
24 Mar
Accelerating pharmaceutical research with a multi-agent AI system
Casper: Helping developers work effectively with coding assistants
From assistants to agents
23 Mar
Last week in AI | 23 March
18 Mar
Beyond vibe coding: The five building blocks of AI-native engineering
16 Mar
A Thoughtworks perspective on CircleCI’s 2026 State of Software Delivery Report
Last week in AI | 16 March
Unlocking the relational power of graph neural networks in fraud prevention
Making sense of the SaaSpocalypse
13 Mar
Escaping the legacy black hole: How insurers can turn technical debt into agility
The hidden pearls of TDD
12 Mar
A world of opportunity: how AI and Assistive tech could build independence for millions
11 Mar
Getting to 82% Renewables: How AI secures our energy future
10 Mar
Turning the tide: Overcoming the platform challenge of low developer adoption
6 Mar
This week in AI | 6 March
3 Mar
SRE is entering a paradigm shift
2 Mar
Using AI to build a GenAI bot for logistics teams at a major retailer
Preparing your team for the agentic software development life cycle
Claude Code and COBOL modernization: What’s the reality?
26 Feb
Document processing isn't one problem — it's three
The evolving landscape of the sports industry
Beyond the hype: A real-world guide to building enterprise-grade AI agents
25 Feb
Reflections on the future of Software Engineering retreat
24 Feb
OutreachAI: from signals to sales
Overcoming political hurdles for platform engineering success
The Great British T+1 Rush: Faster settlements by 2027
20 Feb
Where does the rigor go?
The ambiguity trap
So, you want to run OpenClaw?
19 Feb
Rethinking go-to-market for the AI era
Beyond legacy: The human and structural risks slowing modernization in government and regulated industries
17 Feb
Platform engineering: Rebuilding the core for developer effectiveness
Clarity from chaos: Overcoming tooling fragmentation in platform engineering
A guide to overcoming an inadequate or absent platform operating model
16 Feb
Human-centered AI: How to keep humans at the center of your AI efforts
13 Feb
AI products are here. AI product operations are not
The Ferrari in the jungle: AI-driven software development in large enterprises
Viral AI call to action is more nuanced than you think
6 Feb
How we built a pharmaceutical research assistant with generative AI
3 Feb
Manufacturing: From legacy to AI platforms
30 Jan
AIOps: What we learned in 2025
29 Jan
Unlocking Infrastructure as Code’s potential through AI
26 Jan
Economic crime, data sharing and AI: The new contract for UK financial leaders
23 Jan
How to better connect strategy to implementation
21 Jan
In the age of AI coding, code quality still matters
19 Jan
Cognitive leakage and the human consequences of software abstractions
Managing LLM risks: A framework for academic publishing
16 Jan
The state of data mesh in 2026: From hype to hard-won maturity
15 Jan
Effective steering structures for your digital engineering at scale
Legacy modernization in the age of AI
14 Jan
Building stablecoin infrastructure: Every banks' institutional relevance is at stake
9 Jan
Transforming exhibition experiences with AI
How to build the organizational muscle needed to scale AI beyond PoCs
7 Jan
Platformization 2.0: Managed services in the life sciences
4 Jan
Understanding the recruitment process for Thoughtworks University
18 Dec 2025
Software engineering skills, jobs and careers in the AI era
11 Dec 2025
The Model Context Protocol's impact on 2025
Insights top picks from 2025
10 Dec 2025
Mainframe modernization: An illustrated guide
9 Dec 2025
The competency revolution: Architecting the new foundation for talent
When chatbots mislead: Three traps and fixes for AI customer service
4 Dec 2025
Spec-driven development: Unpacking one of 2025’s key new AI-assisted engineering practices
The power of shared learning: Thoughts as I near three years at Thoughtworks
3 Dec 2025
Service-as-software: A new economic model for the age of AI agents
Infusing trusted AI coding assistants into SRE investigation
11 things on Technology Radar Vol.33 that aren’t at all related to AI
27 Nov 2025
Building for intent: What we learned from the ChatGPT App SDK
AI for Ops vs. Ops for AI
AI in the enterprise: From individual enablement to organizational impact and back again
25 Nov 2025
How Apache Iceberg helps tackle data lake coordination challenges
21 Nov 2025
Microsoft’s agentic OS wants to help users become sysadmins of their own lives
The Age of Intent: Rethinking value in the AI economy
18 Nov 2025
Finding direction in platform maturity
Anthropic's AI espionage disclosure: Separating the signal from the noise
17 Nov 2025
Building the future of UK payments: Five outcomes driving the UK’s National Payments Vision
Me then, me now: Stories of resilience, discovery and community (Pt. III)
We built a chatbot for a conference in three weeks — here’s how
14 Nov 2025
Transforming unstructured data into enterprise intelligence with AI
13 Nov 2025
AI assistance is a misunderstood revolution in software engineering — here’s why
12 Nov 2025
Putting architecture digitalization into practice — and realizing the benefits
7 Nov 2025
Forget clicks. Start building your site for trust
How AI helped me drive a bold transition in the Technology Radar’s design
6 Nov 2025
How to build an AI-ready knowledge base: Migrating data from Confluence to Azure
5 Nov 2025
From vibe coding to context engineering: 2025 in software development
Macro trends in the tech industry | November 2025
4 Nov 2025
When thinking becomes banking: A CXO's guide to the future of financial inclusion
30 Oct 2025
How Thoughtworks’ PerformanceAI transforms marketing analytics
29 Oct 2025
Building for intent: What it takes to become an intent-ready organization
24 Oct 2025
The Age of Intent: From prototype to transformation
23 Oct 2025
How Terraform’s partial backend configuration enables infrastructure automation at scale
The architecture of advantage: Recomposing the whole system for intelligent outcomes
17 Oct 2025
SWIFT Ledger: a new chapter for global finance
15 Oct 2025
Why context engineering is like teaching AI to skip stones
14 Oct 2025
Agentic commerce: driving smarter growth with every interaction
10 Oct 2025
The interface is dead. Time for the age of intent
9 Oct 2025
From career ladders to ecosystems: A strategic imperative for modern talent management
3 Oct 2025
Agentic AI: Bridging the global insurance penetration gap
2 Oct 2025
Driving change: How Philips is building a future-ready patient monitoring platform
The future of software development: AI speed, human judgment
30 Sept 2025
The Agentic Imperative: The future for banking and financial services with Agentic AI
25 Sept 2025
The 2025 DORA Report: An engineering leadership perspective
24 Sept 2025
How can AI simplify and accelerate user acceptance testing
23 Sept 2025
Top five data modernization strategies for business success
22 Sept 2025
Min-p sampling for LLMs
Becoming ISO-native: Navigating the end of coexistence in the ISO 20022 migration journey
18 Sept 2025
Technology's role in financial inclusion: A deeper look
15 Sept 2025
The evolution of platform engineering: Lessons from the trenches
11 Sept 2025
From transactional services to transformational ecosystems: The Thoughtworks approach
10 Sept 2025
Ephemeral testing environments: Sometimes, you just need to kill your darlings
Bridging the SRE gap: Towards autonomous observability and RCA
9 Sept 2025
Can AI help modernize legacy automotive C++ code?
8 Sept 2025
Proactive, predictive and AI-powered: Redefining Level 1 and 2 application support
5 Sept 2025
Tackling MCP security challenges with the MCP API delegation pattern
From black box to blueprint: How we performed a rapid assessment of a legacy system with CAST
2 Sept 2025
Anthropic says AI is making cybercrime easier: Here’s how to respond
29 Aug 2025
Building an AI-first platform strategy
28 Aug 2025
How to cultivate trust with AI coding assistants
Context engineering: How to give AI exactly what it needs
27 Aug 2025
How do we put the human at the center of AI?
26 Aug 2025
Better government powered by agentic AI: Key lessons for public service leaders
21 Aug 2025
AI isn't just a coding partner — it can be a deployment partner, too
Introducing a little book with a simple goal: to help our global teams understand each other a little better. Why? Because teams that know each other can support each other. Teams that understand each other create space for each other. People who know each other feel safe together. The outcome? Building belonging.
From alert fatigue to AIOps: Building a proactive observability stack with Datadog on EKS
20 Aug 2025
We need to treat AI hallucinations as a feature, not a bug
15 Aug 2025
Model Context Protocol: Unlocking the future of airline retailing
14 Aug 2025
Automating framework upgrades: Can a combination of AI and traditional tooling help?
Creating a thriving business climate with agentic AI in public services
Unlocking the power of data products in financial services
12 Aug 2025
Build competitive advantage with connected product engineering
8 Aug 2025
The five dimensions of AI adoption
Modernization gone wrong: Spotting and avoiding common antipatterns
5 Aug 2025
Navigating how to scale AI: Scaling hype into business value
4 Aug 2025
6 trends in manufacturing data and AI
1 Aug 2025
Organizing for AI: From experimentation to industrialization
31 Jul 2025
AI evals for MCP in AIOps
30 Jul 2025
AI-generated test cases from user stories: An experimental research study
Can we use generative AI to generate test cases from user stories?
29 Jul 2025
Pride isn’t just a month: Building authentic inclusion for queer and layered identities in tech
Me then, me now: Stories of resilience, discovery and community (Pt. II)
25 Jul 2025
Guiding the unknown: A compass on how to navigate complex strategic initiatives
Deep Kernel-level AI RCA with MCP
Digital strategy to accelerate the citizen development and AI revolution
24 Jul 2025
How AI and a test-first approach can tackle modernization trade-offs
22 Jul 2025
The Finternet revolution: How AI and code are reshaping finance
18 Jul 2025
Kimi K2: What’s all the fuss and what’s it like to use?
Context-aware incident handling with MCP: A strategic view with a practical case
A bold new chapter for UK payments infrastructure: What’s next?
No wrong door: How AI enables accessible government services for citizens
17 Jul 2025
Claude for Financial Services: What you need to know
The dangers of AI agentwashing
16 Jul 2025
Unpacking Mastercard’s take on today's payments landscape
10 Jul 2025
What the Monzo fine teaches us about navigating growth in financial services
9 Jul 2025
How MCP can help us investigate security incidents faster
7 Jul 2025
Fuzz-testing in the AI era: Rediscovering an old technique for new challenges
Energy demand is rising: Here's how Utilities can get the most out of their IT modernization efforts
Energy demand is rising: Here's how Utilities can get the most out of their IT modernization efforts
4 Jul 2025
Agentic AI at work
Start smarter: How to identify your digital transformation exemplar
Durable computing: Making it easier build resilience into distributed systems
Do developers need to think less with AI?
3 Jul 2025
AI beyond productivity: How product leaders are driving a paradigm shift by integrating AI workers
2 Jul 2025
Streamlining compliance: How generative AI revolutionizes Know Your Customer processes
27 Jun 2025
How AI is reshaping IT operations: From firefighting to intelligent evolution
24 Jun 2025
Catalysing Europe’s settlement revolution: T+1 by 2027
20 Jun 2025
Unleashing potential: The business benefits of AI-first software engineering
Blackbox reverse engineering: Can AI help rebuild an application without accessing its code?
18 Jun 2025
Using RAG in a virtual assistant application
17 Jun 2025
Transforming government services with AI
12 Jun 2025
Three steps to post-quantum cryptography
10 Jun 2025
Beyond the algorithm: Overcoming hidden barriers to data and AI success
9 Jun 2025
Meet the Thoughtworkers behind the project with MYOB
In this article, two of our DEI leaders walk through the journey to truly embedding gender diversity -- why it's important, why it's hard and what we are doing to secure progress in the right direction.
5 Jun 2025
Semantic search and retrieval using transformers
4 Jun 2025
The next frontiers in AI — according to industry leaders
From data sharing to data insights orchestration: Realizing the potential of payment value chains
3 Jun 2025
Unlocking innovation through modern application development
Wealth Management's profit multiplier: The power of modern advisor tech
Modernization, sustained: AI-driven operations in action
2 Jun 2025
Looking Glass: Tech trends shaping the UK health and social care sector
30 May 2025
Google I/O 2025: What were the key takeaways?
28 May 2025
Behind the scenes of Thoughtworks University in India
Transforming the CPG Industry Through Automation and Data Excellence
AI is Transforming Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG): Are You Keeping Up?
26 May 2025
Why the EU Data Act is an opportunity, not a burden
Inclusive by design: Creating impact at the 39th Winter Sports Clinic
23 May 2025
Why MCP is critical for AI-driven SRE
22 May 2025
Level up your developer experience: Five practical strategies for engineering teams
Reskilling for AI: What tech talent does your enterprise need?
21 May 2025
The inside-out advantage: Why your customer experience starts with your employees
Leadership at scale: From chaos to empowerment
Me then, me now: Stories of resilience, discovery and community (Pt. I)
20 May 2025
The AI-powered workforce: Cultivating the new breed of talent for 21st century operations
19 May 2025
How to improve AI outputs using advanced prompt techniques
15 May 2025
The Model Context Protocol: Getting beneath the hype
14 May 2025
The high-performance playbook: How great product teams deliver results