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Sketching with code
February 24, 2026
Sketching with code is a different mode, but it feels natural to me. I can often draw faster on a keyboard than with a stylus. Over the years, I developed a physical sketching system—symbols, color ...
Read MoreWriting code is cheap now – Agentic Engineering Patterns – Simon Willison’s Weblog
February 24, 2026
The biggest challenge in adopting agentic engineering practices is getting comfortable with the consequences of the fact that writing code is cheap now. Delivering new code has dropped in price to alm...
Read MoreDon’t waste your back pressure ·
February 23, 2026
You might notice a pattern in the most successful applications of agents over the last year. Projects that are able to setup structure around the agent itself, to provide it with automated feedback on...
Read MoreDon’t waste your back pressure ·
February 23, 2026
You might notice a pattern in the most successful applications of agents over the last year. Projects that are able to setup structure around the agent itself, to provide it with automated feedback on...
Read MoreThe Promptware Kill Chain | Lawfare
February 23, 2026
Attacks against modern generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) pose a real threat. Yet discussions around these attacks and their potential defenses are dangerously myopic...
Read MoreThe Promptware Kill Chain | Lawfare
February 23, 2026
Attacks against modern generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) pose a real threat. Yet discussions around these attacks and their potential defenses are dangerously myopic...
Read MoreThe Context Development Lifecycle: Optimizing Context for AI Coding Agents
February 23, 2026
Why the next software development revolution isn’t about code, it’s about context. We’ve spent decades perfecting how humans write code. We’ve built entire methodologies (water...
Read MoreHow System Prompts Define Agent Behavior
February 23, 2026
Coding agents are fascinating to study. They help us build software in a new way, while themselves exemplifying a novel approach to architecting and implementing software. At their core is an AI model...
Read MoreOpenClaw is the most fun I’ve had with a PC in 50 years • The Register
February 20, 2026
Opinion Fifty years ago this month, I touched a computer for the first time. It was an experience that pegged the meter for me like no other – until last week. My first encounter happened in New Eng...
Read MoreHarness Engineering
February 19, 2026
It was very interesting to read OpenAI’s recent write-up on “Harness engineering” which describes how a team used “no manually typed code at all” as a forcing function to build a harness for...
Read MoreAnnouncing Moonshine Voice « Pete Warden’s blog
February 19, 2026
Today we’re launching Moonshine Voice, a new family of on-device speech to text models designed for live voice applications, and an open source library to run them. They support streaming, doing a l...
Read MoreThe left is missing out on AI – by Dan Kagan-Kans
February 19, 2026
“Somehow all of the interesting energy for discussions about the long-range future of humanity is concentrated on the right,” wrote Joshua Achiam, head of mission alignment at OpenAI, on X last ye...
Read MoreFinding Comfort in the Uncertainty – Annie Vella
February 19, 2026
About 40 of us – practitioners, researchers, technical leaders from around the world – gathered in Deer Valley, Utah, for an invite-only retreat on the future of software development. The ...
Read MoreOpenClaw Architecture and Insights | techaways
February 16, 2026
OpenClaw (a.k.a Claudbot) is an open-source personal AI assistant (MIT licensed) created by Peter Steinberger that has quickly gained traction with over 180,000 stars on GitHub at the time of writing ...
Read MoreDeep Blue
February 16, 2026
Becoming a professional software engineer is hard. Getting good enough for people to pay you money to write software takes years of dedicated work. The rewards are significant: this is a well compensa...
Read MoreAnthropic: 8 agentic coding trends shaping software engineering in 2026
February 16, 2026
Software teams are under pressure to ship faster, but most AI coding tools still handle only narrow slices of the job rather than full builds — a pattern the next wave of agent systems is expected t...
Read MoreLiving in the inflection point
February 10, 2026
I don’t know why this week became the tipping point, but nearly every software engineer I’ve talked to is experiencing some degree of mental health crisis… Many people assuming I meant job loss ...
Read MoreWhat Wall Street Gets Wrong About SaaS – Roger Wong
February 10, 2026
Last week, B2B software companies tumbled in the stock market, dropping over 10%. Software stocks have been trending down since September 2025, now down 30% according to the IGV software index. The pr...
Read MoreDoes AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
February 5, 2026
In 1950, in a paper entitled ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’1, Alan Turing proposed his ‘imitation game’. Now known as the Turing test, it addressed a question that seemed purely hypoth...
Read MoreHamish Songsmith – Blog & Links
February 5, 2026
A growing chasm separates those building around AI from those still debating it—and it has nothing to do with model size or vendor choice. On one side: people who aren’t fixated on measuring or ju...
Read MoreThe Coherence Premium
February 3, 2026
In 1937, the British economist Ronald Coase asked a question that seems almost embarrassingly simple: why do firms exist at all? If markets are so efficient at allocating resources, why don’t we...
Read MoreHierarchical memory management in agent harnesses | LinkedIn
February 3, 2026
We’ve seen incredible momentum toward files as the memory layer for agents, and this has accelerated significantly over the last year. But why use the file system, and why use Unix commands? What ar...
Read MoreIs Learning CSS a Waste of Time in 2026? – DEV Community
February 3, 2026
With modern frameworks, component libraries, and utility-first CSS, it’s a fair question. Most frontend developers today rarely write “real” CSS. Layouts come prebuilt. Responsiveness is handled...
Read MoreAI open models have benefits. So why aren’t they more widely used? | MIT Sloan
February 2, 2026
A new paper co-authored by Frank Nagle, a research scientist at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, found that users largely opt for closed, proprietary AI inference models, namely those from O...
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