Rewilding Software Engineering
Rewilding Software Engineering is a book by Tudor Girba and Simon Wardley (2025, written in the open on Medium). It introduces Moldable Development: “a way of programming through contextual micro tools built for each problem.” The book frames software engineering as primarily a decision-making activity about systems too large to fully grasp. Practitioners create bespoke tools that reveal software systems in human-understandable ways, transforming abstract code into meaningful visual representations. Key principles include that questions must be actionable, specific, and timely, while answers must be accurate, explainable, and representative. The approach connects to Situation Oriented computing: no fixed UI, interfaces generated for the moment and discarded after.