Uwe Friedrichsen

ufried.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2020

Uwe Friedrichsen, a software architect, writes on software architecture, resilience, reusability, and the effects of automation and AI on IT work.

What HN saysHN commenters point to his series on the ironies of AI automation and the reusability fallacy as relevant reading in AI and architecture threads.
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  1. 1
    The Reusability Fallacy
    3 people · 5 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
  2. 2
    The Right Dose of Resilience
    3 people · 4 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
  3. 3
    AI and the Ironies of Automation
    3 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
  4. 4
    AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2
    2 people · 256 points · first shared 2025 · 120 comments on HN
  5. 5
    The reusability fallacy – Part 3
    2 people · 89 points · first shared 2020 · 21 comments on HN
  6. 6
    Solving the Wrong Problem
    2 people · 38 points · first shared 2025 · 25 comments on HN
  7. 7
    A note about eventual consistency
    2 people · 8 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
  8. 8
    The continuous amnesia issue in IT
    2 people · 6 points · first shared 2020 · 2 comments on HN
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    Microliths as a Microservices Alternative
    2 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
  11. 11
    The reusability fallacy – Part 2
    2 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
  12. 12
    Systems Thinking and Quality
    1 people · 125 points · first shared 2020 · 27 comments on HN
  13. 13
    The Microservices Fallacy
    1 people · 12 points · first shared 2025 · 12 comments on HN
  14. 14
    The (Business) Process Deadlock
    1 people · 12 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
  15. 15
    Projects considered harmful – Part 1
    1 people · 8 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN

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twobiers · 2026-04-09
> There is a whole giant essay I probably need to write at some point, but I can't help but see parallels between today and the Industrial Revolution. You might want to give the following Articles a read then: https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_1/ https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_2/
aavci · 2026-01-23
In my opinion, the way this will play out is with a significant amount of validation and human oversight to fully utilize these LLMs. As you mentioned, I recommend giving the AI room for error and improving the experience of manually checking everything. Maybe create a tool to facilitate manually checking the output? This is a valuable read: https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_1/
6510 · 2020-03-29
Like my own his English is good but not that good. His seems the right way to explain (there probably is a formal description for the style of writing (and a word for it in German)) but when reception is not guaranteed (I keep feeling like I almost got his point.) I would lower myself to explaining by code example. Something like a "hello world" of usable vs re-usable. Someone more skilled in the art should probably address note 6 ( https://www.ufried.com/blog/reusability_fallacy_3/#fn:6 ) I did recall a thought I had some years ago that I will describe crudely because I'm lazy: Parts of applications, by popularity, should be re-implemented in API's. Parts of API's, by popularity, should be implemented in modules. Parts of modules, by popularity, should be implemented in frameworks. Parts of frameworks, by popularity, should be implemented in (higher) languages (then lower) Parts of languages, by popularity, should be baked into hardware. (Unpopular parts should migrate the other way around but that is not important right now)

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