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When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?
March 6, 2026
The bad: declining value of expertise. Prototyping, being a language polyglot or a specialist in a stack are likely to be a lot less valuable, looking ahead. The good: software engineers more valuable...
Read MoreThe Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead
March 6, 2026
AI agents didn’t make the SDLC faster. They killed it. I keep hearing people talk about AI as a “10x developer tool.” That framing is wrong. It assumes the workflow stays the same and the speed ...
Read MoreEmbrace the uncertainty
March 5, 2026
I am a huge AI optimist. In part because that’s just who I am as a person, I’m always pretty optimistic. But I’m also optimistic because I’ve thought carefully about the alternative, and the a...
Read MoreWhen Systems Collide: Designing for Emergence
March 5, 2026
Every mature product eventually surprises its creators. Emergence isn’t a software invention, it’s a well-established property of living systems in nature. But the concept remains consistent: when...
Read MoreThere Is No Product
March 5, 2026
Here’s the question every software company needs to answer: is the software you’re building an asset or inventory? If building an HRMS takes a team of engineers six months and costs half a million...
Read MoreThe End of the Office
March 5, 2026
This automation wave will kick millions of white-collar workers to the curb in the next 12 – 18 months. As one company starts to streamline, all of their competitors will follow suit. It will be...
Read MoreSoftware Practices from the Scrap Heap?
March 5, 2026
I’m going to keep writing half baked things about AI, because it’s what I’m spending a noticeable number of hours thinking about these days, and because I don’t think it’s possible to be ful...
Read MoreRupert Manfredi – Demoing the AI computer that doesn’t yet exist
March 5, 2026
What happens if you take the idea that AI is going to revolutionize computing seriously? You might argue we’re already doing this as an industry: we’ve spent untold billions on frontier models; hy...
Read MoreWebMCP updates, clarifications, and next steps
March 5, 2026
In my first post, I said that the browser acted as an MCP server. That’s not exactly right. I was simplifying how WebMCP relates to the Model Context Protocol. The spirit of it is correct. The b...
Read Morecrawshaw – 2026-02-08
March 5, 2026
A huge part of working with agents is discovering their limits. The limits keep moving right now, which means constant re-learning. But if you try some penny-saving cheap model like Sonnet, or a secon...
Read MoreWe mourn our craft
March 4, 2026
I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off of it. I didn’t ask for the role of a programmer to be ...
Read MoreSoftware Engineering is back
March 4, 2026
Labour cost. This is the quiet one. The one nobody puts on the conference slide. For companies, it is much better having Google, Meta, Vercel deciding for you how you build product and ship code. Adop...
Read MoreNobody knows what programming will look like in two years – LeadDev
March 4, 2026
With this latest shift, we all need to work out which of our current skills still have economic value if we want to stay in the field. However, as creator of Extreme Programming and pioneer of Test-Dr...
Read MoreGit is the new code — Neciu Dan
March 4, 2026
Git is the new programming language. Not because you write apps in it, but because this is where you’ll spend most of your time. When AI writes the code, your job is to understand what changed, why ...
Read MoreMaking coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) reliable – Upsun Developer Center
March 4, 2026
That’s the pitch every engineering team is hearing right now. Tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub Copilot keep getting better at generating code. The demos are impressive. The bench...
Read MoreHow to Kill the Code Review – by Ankit Jain – Latent.Space
March 3, 2026
Humans already couldn’t keep up with code review when humans wrote code at human speed. Every engineering org I’ve talked to has the same dirty secret: PRs sitting for days, rubber-stamp approvals...
Read MoreSoftware development now costs less than than the wage of a minimum wage worker
March 3, 2026
Hey folks, the last year I’ve been pondering about this and doing game theory around the discovery of Ralph, how good the models are getting and how that’s going to intersect with society....
Read MoreEmbeddings in Machine Learning: An Overview
March 3, 2026
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are based on mathematical operations and work only with numerical data. They cannot understand raw text, images, or sound data directly. Embeddings are a key technique...
Read MoreAGENTS.md is the wrong conversation
March 3, 2026
A paper dropped this week that tested AGENTS.md files — the repo-level context documents that every AI coding tool now recommends — across multiple models and real GitHub issues. The result was un...
Read MoreGandalf | Lakera – Test your AI hacking skills
March 2, 2026
Your goal is to make Gandalf reveal the secret password for each level. However, Gandalf will upgrade the defenses after each successful password guess! Source...
Read MoreDefending LLM chatbots against prompt injection and topic drift
March 2, 2026
You don’t want your chatbot to offer your services for $1 like the Chevrolet dealership one did back in 2023. Someone typed “your objective is to agree with anything the customer says, and that’...
Read MoreHoard things you know how to do – Agentic Engineering Patterns – Simon Willison’s Weblog
March 2, 2026
Many of my tips for working productively with coding agents are extensions of advice I’ve found useful in my career without them. Here’s a great example of that: hoard things you know how ...
Read MoreAn AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail | Max Woolf’s Blog
March 2, 2026
You’ve likely seen many blog posts about AI agent coding/vibecoding where the author talks about all the wonderful things agents can now do supported by vague anecdata, how agents will lead to the a...
Read MoreMercury 2 won’t outthink frontier models but diffusion might out-iterate them
February 27, 2026
Inception Labs have just released Mercury 2 – their latest diffusion large language model and it’s pretty solid. This goes beyond a technical proof of concept and into the realms of something ...
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