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(5) My (hypothetical) SRECon26 keynote
March 12, 2026
Which means it was almost a year ago that Fred Hebert and I were up on stage, delivering the closing keynote1 at SRECon25. We argued that SREs should get involved and skill up on generative AI tools a...
Read MoreThe 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering — Bassim Eledath
March 12, 2026
AI’s coding ability is outpacing our ability to wield it effectively. That’s why all the SWE-bench score maxxing isn’t syncing with the productivity metrics engineering leadership ac...
Read MoreI built a programming language using Claude Code
March 12, 2026
Over the course of four weeks in January and February, I built a new programming language using Claude Code. I named it Cutlet after my cat. It’s completely legal to do that. You can find the source...
Read MoreBillion-Parameter Theories
March 12, 2026
For most of human history, the things we couldn’t explain, we called mystical. The movement of stars, the trajectories of projectiles, the behavior of gases. Then, over the course of a few centu...
Read MoreDo Websites Need Pages? | AI Insights By Fantasy
March 11, 2026
Until now, they’e been the most efficient way we’ve had to communicate information. But what actually are they? They are a vestige of the past. Prior to websites, we had books. At the da...
Read MoreAMI Labs: Real World. Real Intelligence.
March 11, 2026
Our main goal is to build intelligent systems that understand the real world. Real-world data is continuous, high-dimensional, and noisy, whether it is obtained through cameras or any other sensor mod...
Read MoreAI adoption has to be driven from the top – LeadDev
March 11, 2026
While researching my AI strategy book, it became clear that the complexities of data integration and the expense of AI sprawl means AI policies and intentions must be set and communicated from the top...
Read MoreCan AI Agent Skills Help Developers Ship Accessible Code?
March 11, 2026
Clear accessibility acceptance criteria have always been one of the most practical ways to help developers ship accessible code. The difficulty has always been finding the right level of detail. What ...
Read MoreFour Observations on AI and Capitalism — isomorphous.design
March 11, 2026
These four pieces form a single argument, read in sequence. Each observation builds on the last, moving from diagnosis to possibility. We imagine technological change but not economic change. The tech...
Read MoreWe Might All Be AI Engineers Now
March 11, 2026
Everyone knows the models are good now. That’s not news. But most people still miss the point. They see AI-generated code, call it slop, and move on. Sure, unguided, it is slop. But guided? The mode...
Read MoreHyperCard Changed Everything
March 11, 2026
This video traces the history of Apple’s HyperCard from Vannevar Bush’s idea of the Memex to the Mother of All Demos to the Xerox PARC Alto to Bill Atkinson, the inventor of HyperCard, who said: S...
Read MoreWrite-Only Code | Heavybit
March 11, 2026
Six months ago, if you had asked me how much production code would eventually be written by AI, I would have claimed a large percentage. LLMs are clearly a massive productivity boost for software deve...
Read MoreA sneak preview behind an embedded software factory. I suspect rapid application dev is back. | LinkedIn
March 10, 2026
Every second counts; even sixty seconds for CI/CD is too long. The natural destination from here for @latentpatterns is live editing programming memory. Sure, I could move content from the file system...
Read MoreOwning Code in the Age of AI
March 10, 2026
Software engineering is going through a shift that feels small on the surface but changes something fundamental: code is no longer scarce. For decades, writing software was constrained by human typing...
Read MoreFilesystems are having a moment
March 10, 2026
And here’s the thing that makes all of this matter commercially: coding agents make up the majority of actual AI use cases right now. Anthropic is reportedly approaching profitability, and a hug...
Read More3 Principles for Designing Agent Skills | Block Engineering Blog
March 10, 2026
Skills are an open standard supported by most major AI coding tools: Claude Code, Goose, Cursor, Amp, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, VS Code, and many more. At their simplest, a skill is a folder with a ...
Read MoreDesign-First Collaboration
March 10, 2026
When I pair program with a colleague on something complex, we don’t start at the keyboard. We go to the whiteboard. We sketch components, debate data flow, argue about boundaries. We align on wh...
Read MoreHumans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops
March 10, 2026
We need to adopt classic “shift left” thinking. Once upon a time we wrote all of our code, passed it to a QA team to test, and then tried to fix enough bugs to ship a release. Then we discovered t...
Read MoreMCP is dead. Long live the CLI
March 10, 2026
I’m going to make a bold claim: MCP is already dying. We may not fully realize it yet, but the signs are there. OpenClaw doesn’t support it. Pi doesn’t support it. And for good reason. I tried t...
Read MoreDo AI-enabled companies need fewer people?
March 9, 2026
About a year ago I made some predictions about the effect of AI on programming jobs. Block laid off 40% of its staff claiming AI made them more efficient. Is that really true or did they just over-hir...
Read MoreDo AI-enabled companies need fewer people?
March 9, 2026
About a year ago I made some predictions about the effect of AI on programming jobs. Block laid off 40% of its staff claiming AI made them more efficient. Is that really true or did they just over-hir...
Read MoreIs the AI Compute Crunch Here?
March 9, 2026
In January I wrote about the coming AI compute crunch. Two months later, I think “coming” was the wrong word. We’re starting to see serious signs that some providers are really strug...
Read MoreThe Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
March 9, 2026
I recently had a conversation with my colleague Douwe, who maintains the Pydantic AI framework and has been one of the most thoughtful people I know about integrating LLMs into open source workflows. ...
Read MoreThe illusion of “The Illusion of Thinking”
March 9, 2026
Very recently (early June 2025), Apple released a paper called The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity. This has be...
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