Emmanuel Valverde Ramos

Emmanuel Valverde Ramos

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Working 👨‍💻 @ 🏡 | 🎗️ Cancer survivor 🦸‍♂️ | Crafter working @BavelVoxel, ex-@codurance_es, ex-@_nailted | co-organizer @murciaswcraft | Open Source #bashunit | International speaker | co-author | #XP #TDD #PairProgramming #TBD #DDD

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Emmanuel Valverde Ramos
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What's wrong with crafters' conferences in Spain? Instead of talking about crafting, they talk about technology. The goal shouldn't be a mass conference or a conference for the majority, but rather to talk about what the conference is supposed to be about.

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The Pragmatic Engineer.@pragmaticengineer.com

What is "loop engineering?" Looking closer at practical examples of workflows devs use, there doesn't seem to be all that much difference between triggers and cron jobs. This is probably b/c harnesses have added one-prompt "loop" capabilities. Full: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/what-is-lo...

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Emmanuel Valverde Ramos
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5/6 If a tool forces you to understand its hidden quirks, model-specific behaviours, prompt sensitivities, or implementation details to use it safely, then it has not fully abstracted them away. That is closer to a leaky abstraction.

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6/6 LLM agents can be powerful. They can help explore, draft, generate, and automate. But calling them an abstraction layer too quickly hides the real cost: verification, review, ownership, and responsibility. Sometimes a tool is just a tool. emmanuelvalverderamos.substack.com/p/agents-are...

emmanuelvalverderamos.substack.comAgents are not a new abstraction layer. They are a new place to hide the billLLM agentic development can be useful, but calling it an abstraction layer is how teams rename verification cost as progress.
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Dragan Stepanović
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The problem is that people deciding if developers should be writing code are very often the ones who have never had enough experience with writing code to have a good idea what the value of writing code is and the purpose it serves, but they are convinced they know.

Emmanuel Valverde Ramos
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A visual summary of my article

Emmanuel Valverde Ramos@emmanuelvalverde.dev

I'm so tired of the fact that when people learn OOP, they aren't taught essential concepts like the relationships between objects, so I've created this guide emmanuelvalverderamos.substack.com/p/how-object...

emmanuelvalverderamos.substack.comHow Objects Relate: A Practical Taxonomy for Object-Oriented DesignThe problem is not the vocabulary. The problem is using one flat vocabulary for several different kinds of design decisions

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SoCraTes UK
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Some options have sold out but you can still register! On offer, an amazing training day with sessions for many interests on Thu 18th June, see more below. And/Or an Open Space Fri 19th/Sat 20th/Sun 21st June: we all make the agenda & practice together. Register: socratesuk.org/tickets.html...