Grady Booch on Software Architecture, Effective Communication, and Computing as a Human Experience

Grady Booch is one of the pioneers of modern software architecture as a distinct discipline of software engineering. He has 50+ years of experience and has developed software for every conceivable domain, has authored 7 books and is the co-creator of the UML design language. His latest ongoing work is a documentary called Computing - The Human Experience: https://computingthehumanexperience.com/ Timeline: 0:00 Introduction 0:58 Computing - The Human Experience 4:20 Why Grady invested 10+ years in the Computing documentary 9:38 How fear of computers taking over looked like 50 years ago 13:09 Computing as a means of power 16:43 How Grady became an effective communicator 19:58 Growing communication skills and infuriating TED organizers 24:20 Grady's writing process and upcoming book 31:01 How Grady defines success for his upcoming projects 33:44 Why Gang of Four patterns are considered too rigid 41:52 Accelerating "good taste" acquisition in software engineering 48:00 Book recommendations for software engineers 49:00 Examples of fascinating software architecture 52:15 Formal methods and proofs 56:30 Popularity of programming languages despite their flaws 58:43 AI, hype and dangerous code pushed to production 1:06:00 Is AI another abstraction layer? 1:09:18 How humans are different from AI in the search for truth 1:18:26 Grady's optimism in the future of humans and computers 1:24:30 Parting thoughts Book (and author) recommendations for software engineers: Mary Shaw - Software Architecture Martin Fowler Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin