Podcast Episode

First Principles in Software Engineering

Agile Software Engineering·Alessandro·27 August 2026·23 min

About this episode

Send us Fan MailIn this episode of The Agile Software Engineering Deep Dive, Alessandro Guida explores what first-principles thinking means and how it can be applied to software engineering.The episode moves from the philosophical roots of first principles into practical engineering questions about architecture, Agile, microservices, technical debt, software quality, and AI-assisted development.The core idea is simple: before choosing methods, tools, frameworks, or fashionable solutions, we should understand what is fundamentally true about the problem, the system, and the engineering responsibility behind it.Support the showThis Podcast is an audio version of the written Agile Software Engineering newsletter.  If you want to go deeper, don't forget to subscribe the newsletter too.