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An Accidental Blackboard

· Martin Fowler · Sept. 2, 2026, 2:54 p.m.

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Summary

Giles Edwards-Alexander discusses a team's experiment with agentic engineering practices that inadvertently led to the development of a blackboard coordination system within their git repository, highlighting the unexpected creativity and productivity from using these techniques.

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