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Back to SearchThemes from Technology Radar Vol.33
In every Thoughtworks Technology Radar we feature three to five themes that represent the core issues and topics that emerged from the conversations we had when putting the publication together. This…
Published on 10 hours ago
What does an AI strategy with humans at the center look like?
Everyone knows an AI strategy is important — but how do you build one with humans at the center? That's a question Tiankai Feng, Thoughtworks Global Director for Data and AI Strategy, has been ponder…
Published on 2 weeks ago
What we're talking about when we talk about context engineering
Everyone seems to be talking about context engineering. That was certainly the case in our recent discussions for the upcoming edition of the Technology Radar (volume 33, due early November 2025). An…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Mean time to shared understanding: Bridging the gap between citizen developers and developers
Although the concept of the 'citizen developer' isn't new, with the rise of AI the relationship between those building software without much technical experience and seasoned software developers is b…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Organizational design and Team Topologies after AI
Managing technological change in an organization — particularly a large and complex one — has always been challenging. But thanks to the rapid adoption of AI in all kinds of spheres, from knowledge m…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Context engineering: Tackling legacy systems with generative AI
Generative AI can be incredibly powerful when it comes to legacy modernization. Not only can it help us better understand a large, aging codebase, it can even help us reverse engineer a legacy system…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Navigating AI opportunities at MYOB
How should businesses go about actually navigating AI? It's one thing to strategize and generate new ideas, but what needs to be done to put it into practice in a way that's effective and commerciall…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Caring about documentation in the LLM era (w/ Heidi Waterhouse)
In an age of vibe coding and LLMs, do we really need to care about documentation? Do we need to spend time and energy producing it — time when we could just be shipping code? Of course we do; particu…
Published on 3 months ago
Why the tech industry needs Expert Generalists (w/ Martin Fowler)
The technology industry has embraced specialisms — not just in different fields or job roles, like web development or security, but even in terms of particular platforms or stacks. But are we losing …
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The three new fallacies of distributed computing
Back in 1994, Peter Deutsch and his colleagues at Sun Microsystems identified what they described as the "eight fallacies of distributed computing" — flawed assumptions that often get made when teams…
Published on 4 months ago