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Grace 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...
Read Moreporting software has been trivial for a while now. here’s how you do it.
March 16, 2026
This one is short and sweet. if you want to port a codebase from one language to another here’s the approach: The key theory here is usage of citations in the specifications which tease the file_rea...
Read MoreThe Great Turnover: 9 in 10 Companies Plan To Hire in 2026, Yet 6 in 10 Will Have Layoffs
March 16, 2026
Resume.org’s latest survey of 1,000 U.S. hiring managers found that: AI is influencing staffing decisions, but most companies aren’t experiencing the dramatic job replacement narrative that often ...
Read MoreSoftware Bonkers
March 16, 2026
I’m software bonkers: I can’t stop thinking about software. And I can’t stop building software. My first Claude Code project was to rebuild Twitter as I always thought it should be: Surprise! It...
Read MoreSo where are all the AI apps?
March 16, 2026
Fans of vibecoding and agentic tools say they are 2x as productive, 10x as productive – maybe 100x as productive! Someone built an entire web browser from scratch. Amazing! So, skeptics reasonably a...
Read Morea sneak preview behind an embedded software factory. I suspect rapid application dev is back
March 12, 2026
Latent Patterns builds Latent patterns. I’ve taken some of the ideas behind “The Weaving Loom” and inverted them, put them into the product itself and have perhaps accidentally creat...
Read More(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...
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