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Fragments: April 21 Last week Thoughtworks released the 34th volume of our Technology Radar. This radar is our biannual survey of our experience of the technology scene, highlighting tools, techniques, platforms, and languages that we’ve used or otherwise caught our eye. This edition contains 118 blips, each briefly describing our impressions of one of these elements. As we would expect, the rad...
This collection of insights reveals a tension between AI's transformative potential and the enduring need for human oversight. The Technology Radar's focus on revisiting foundational practices—like clean code and security—suggests a healthy skepticism toward unchecked AI adoption. The "permission-hungry" agent dilemma mirrors broader societal debates about surveillance and autonomy: tools demand access to function, but safeguards lag behind ambition. Mason's critique of AI-generated code undersc...