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damn claude, that’s a lot of commits | AI Focus
April 1, 2026
The week of September 29 2025, there were 27.7 million public commits on GitHub. Claude Code accounted for 180,000 of them, about 0.7%. By the week of March 16 2026, total weekly commits had grown to ...
Read MoreEncoding Team Standards
April 1, 2026
I have observed this pattern repeatedly. A senior engineer, when asking the AI to generate a new service, instinctively specifies: follow our functional style, use the existing error-handling middlewa...
Read MoreQuantization from the ground up | ngrok blog
March 30, 2026
Qwen-3-Coder-Next is an 80 billion parameter model 159.4GB in size. That’s roughly how much RAM you would need to run it, and that’s before thinking about long context windows. This is not...
Read MoreWe Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year | Reco
March 30, 2026
A few weeks ago, Cloudflare published “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week.” One engineer and an AI model reimplemented the Next.js API surface on Vite. Cost about $1,100 in tokens. The imp...
Read MoreI Built a Design Team Out of AI Agents – MC Dean percolates
March 27, 2026
Then I decided to share some of the tools I’ve been using to learn about working with AI more deeply and to explore what it means for design as a practice. I made a set of design skills you can use ...
Read MoreReports of code’s death are greatly exaggerated
March 23, 2026
Until probably late 2025, I would have largely agreed with the sentiment of this comic. Having been working professionally as a software engineer for decades, having studied software engineering in th...
Read MoreUsing Git with coding agents – Agentic Engineering Patterns – Simon Willison’s Weblog
March 23, 2026
Git is a key tool for working with coding agents. Keeping code in version control lets us record how that code changes over time and investigate and reverse any mistakes. All of the coding agents are ...
Read MoreCode Review Is Not About Catching Bugs
March 23, 2026
My former Parse colleague Charity Majors – now CTO of Honeycomb and one of the strongest voices in the observability space – recently posted something that caught my attention. She’s frustrated ...
Read MoreMy Google Recruitment Journey (Part 1): Brute-Forcing My Algorithmic Ignorance
March 23, 2026
About 2 months ago, an email from xwf.google.com dropped into my inbox, referencing an application from a year prior that I even forgot about. My initial classification was that it is not possible and...
Read MoreProduction Is Where the Rigor Goes
March 23, 2026
In early February, Martin Fowler and the good folks at Thoughtworks sponsored a small, invite-only unconference in Deer Valley, Utah—birthplace of the Agile Manifesto—to talk about how software en...
Read MoreCompile to Architecture – The Phoenix Architecture
March 20, 2026
For a long time we’ve treated frameworks as the target of software development. But if systems are meant to be regenerated and replaced safely, the real compilation target has to be the architecture...
Read Moreandrewyng/context-hub
March 19, 2026
Coding agents hallucinate APIs and forget what they learn in a session. Context Hub gives them curated, versioned docs, plus the ability to get smarter with every task. All content is open and maintai...
Read MoreGoogle Engineers Launch “Sashiko” For Agentic AI Code Review Of The Linux Kernel
March 19, 2026
Google engineers have been spending the past number of months developing Sashiko as an agentic AI code review system for the Linux kernel. It’s now open-source and publicly available and will co...
Read MoreApple Quietly Blocks Updates for Popular ‘Vibe Coding’ Apps
March 19, 2026
Apple has quietly blocked AI “vibe coding” apps, such as Replit and Vibecode, from releasing App Store updates unless they make changes, The Information reports. Apple told The Information...
Read MoreIntroducing the Machine Payments Protocol
March 19, 2026
However, the tools of the current financial system were built for humans, so agents struggle to use them. Making a purchase today can require an agent to create an account, navigate a pricing page, ch...
Read MoreIf you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership | Debugging Leadership
March 18, 2026
The core idea is the Theory of Constraints, and it goes like this: Every system has exactly one constraint. One bottleneck. The throughput of your entire system is determined by the throughput of that...
Read MoreToward automated verification of unreviewed AI-generated code – Peter Lavigne
March 18, 2026
I’ve been wondering what it would take for me to use unreviewed AI-generated code in a production setting. To that end, I ran an experiment that has changed my mindset from “I must always ...
Read More202603 – apenwarr
March 18, 2026
We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of communication goes up with the square of the number of members, ...
Read MoreGrace Hopper’s Revenge – by Greg Olsen
March 18, 2026
The world of software has lots of rules and laws. One of the most hilarious is Kernighan’s Law: Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as...
Read MoreWebMCP for Beginners
March 18, 2026
Raise your hand if you thought WebMCP was just an MCP server. Guilty as charged. I did too. It turns out it’s a W3C standard that uses similar concepts to MCP. Here’s what it actually is. ...
Read MoreWhat is agentic engineering? – Agentic Engineering Patterns – Simon Willison’s Weblog
March 17, 2026
I use the term agentic engineering to describe the practice of developing software with the assistance of coding agents. What are coding agents? They’re agents that can both write and execute co...
Read MoreThe Middle Loop – Annie Vella
March 17, 2026
That’s why the first research question I wanted to answer as part of my Masters of Engineering at the University of Auckland, supervised by Kelly Blincoe, was about task focus. Are AI tools shifting...
Read More(5) Software Will Stop Being a Thing – Utopai
March 16, 2026
A thoughtful essay made the rounds recently, arguing that AI-assisted coding splits the software world into three tiers. Tech companies at the top, where senior engineers review what AI produces. Larg...
Read MoreA couple of days ago, I sat down with Vivek Bharathi and dumped my brains. Here’s the interview…
March 16, 2026
Below you’ll find an AI transcription of everything we riffed about. Key distinction: Software Development vs. Software Engineering: Source...
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