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The Interface Is No Longer the Product
For decades, the only way to modify an application’s state was through a human interface. That assumption is starting to…
Read MoreQuantization from the ground up | ngrok blog
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…
Read MoreBillion-Parameter Theories
For most of human history, the things we couldn’t explain, we called mystical. The movement of stars, the trajectories of…
Read MoreThe Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
I recently had a conversation with my colleague Douwe, who maintains the Pydantic AI framework and has been one of…
Read MoreThe illusion of “The Illusion of Thinking”
Very recently (early June 2025), Apple released a paper called The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of…
Read MoreA Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026
In this article, I will walk you through the ten main releases in chronological order, with a focus on the…
Read MoreBecoming a Web AI Practitioner: A Map of the Emerging Stack
I quickly became fascinated with all the latest “Web AI” technologies, such as WebMCP, MCP Apps, MCP-UI, OpenAI’s Apps SDK,…
Read MoreDemystifying evals for AI agents
Good evaluations help teams ship AI agents more confidently. Without them, it’s easy to get stuck in reactive loops—catching issues…
Read MoreThe Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead
AI agents didn’t make the SDLC faster. They killed it. I keep hearing people talk about AI as a “10x…
Read MoreRupert Manfredi – Demoing the AI computer that doesn’t yet exist
What happens if you take the idea that AI is going to revolutionize computing seriously? You might argue we’re already…
Read MoreSoftware development now costs less than than the wage of a minimum wage worker
Hey folks, the last year I’ve been pondering about this and doing game theory around the discovery of Ralph, how…
Read MoreEmbeddings in Machine Learning: An Overview
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are based on mathematical operations and work only with numerical data. They cannot understand raw text,…
Read MoreHow we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
Last week, one engineer and an AI model rebuilt the most popular front-end framework from scratch. The result, vinext (pronounced…
Read MoreDon’t waste your back pressure ·
You might notice a pattern in the most successful applications of agents over the last year. Projects that are able…
Read MoreDon’t waste your back pressure ·
You might notice a pattern in the most successful applications of agents over the last year. Projects that are able…
Read MoreHow System Prompts Define Agent Behavior
Coding agents are fascinating to study. They help us build software in a new way, while themselves exemplifying a novel…
Read MoreThe left is missing out on AI – by Dan Kagan-Kans
“Somehow all of the interesting energy for discussions about the long-range future of humanity is concentrated on the right,” wrote…
Read MoreFinding Comfort in the Uncertainty – Annie Vella
About 40 of us – practitioners, researchers, technical leaders from around the world – gathered in Deer Valley, Utah, for…
Read MoreAnthropic: 8 agentic coding trends shaping software engineering in 2026
Software teams are under pressure to ship faster, but most AI coding tools still handle only narrow slices of the…
Read MoreWhat Wall Street Gets Wrong About SaaS – Roger Wong
Last week, B2B software companies tumbled in the stock market, dropping over 10%. Software stocks have been trending down since…
Read MoreHamish Songsmith – Blog & Links
A growing chasm separates those building around AI from those still debating it—and it has nothing to do with model…
Read MoreThe Coherence Premium
In 1937, the British economist Ronald Coase asked a question that seems almost embarrassingly simple: why do firms exist at…
Read MoreHierarchical memory management in agent harnesses | LinkedIn
We’ve seen incredible momentum toward files as the memory layer for agents, and this has accelerated significantly over the last…
Read MoreIs Learning CSS a Waste of Time in 2026? – DEV Community
With modern frameworks, component libraries, and utility-first CSS, it’s a fair question. Most frontend developers today rarely write “real” CSS.…
Read MoreAI open models have benefits. So why aren’t they more widely used? | MIT Sloan
A new paper co-authored by Frank Nagle, a research scientist at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, found that…
Read MoreOne Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch
One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch (via) embedding-shapes was so infuriated by the hype around Cursor’s…
Read MoreThe Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory – Dan Shapiro’s Blog
If you are just using ChatGPT to write your regex, you aren’t really getting the benefits of deflation. You’re just…
Read MoreWhy Designers Can No Longer Trust the Design Process
For years, designers have been told to trust the process. Research first. Personas. Journey maps. Problem statements. Then solutions. In…
Read Morethe browser is the sandbox | AI Focus
This got me thinking about the browser. Over the last 30 years, we have built a sandbox specifically designed to…
Read MoreElectricity use of AI coding agents | Simon P. Couch – Simon P. Couch
Throughout 2025, we got better estimates of electricity and water use of AI chatbots. There are all sorts of posts…
Read MoreScaling long-running autonomous coding
In my predictions for 2026 the other day I said that by 2029: I think somebody will have built a…
Read MoreAs AI coding agents take flight, what does this mean for jobs?
But if AI is doing more of the software building grunt work, what does that mean for the humans involved?…
Read MoreAI-Assisted Development at Block | Block Engineering Blog
About 95% of our engineers are regularly using AI to assist with their development efforts. The largest population is at…
Read MoreAgent Guardrails and Controls | Block Engineering Blog
In our previous blog post, Securing the Model Context Protocol, we detailed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) system and discussed…
Read MoreTesting Pyramid of AI Agents | Block Engineering Blog
I’m a huge advocate for software testing and have written and spoken quite a bit about the testing pyramid. Unit…
Read MoreIntroducing beginners to the mechanics of machine learning – Miriam Posner
Every year, I spend some time introducing students to the mechanics of machine learning with neural nets. I definitely don’t…
Read MoreAttention? Attention!
Attention is, to some extent, motivated by how we pay visual attention to different regions of an image or correlate…
Read MoreDon’t fall into the anti-AI hype –
Anyway, back to programming. I have a single suggestion for you, my friend. Whatever you believe about what the Right…
Read MoreThe rise of industrial software
Traditionally, software has been expensive to produce, with expense driven largely by the labour costs of a highly skilled and…
Read MoreYour job is to deliver code you have proven to work
Source: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
Read MoreWhat happens when the coding becomes the least interesting part of the work
That judgment is the job of a senior engineer. As far as I can tell, nobody is replacing that job…
Read MoreHow I wrote JustHTML using coding agents
Writing a full HTML5 parser is not a short one-shot problem. I have been working on this project for a…
Read MoreThe Bet On Juniors Just Got Better
Junior developer—obsolete accessory or valuable investment? How does the genie change the analysis? Folks are taking knee-jerk action around the…
Read MoreWhat I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
I’ve also built a bunch of agents over the years, of various complexity. For example, Sitegeist, my little browser-use agent,…
Read MoreUseful patterns for building HTML tools
I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript,…
Read MoreThe /llms.txt file – llms-txt
We propose adding a /llms.txt markdown file to websites to provide LLM-friendly content. This file offers brief background information, guidance,…
Read MoreIs your tech stack AI ready?
We’re at the same inflection point we saw with mobile and cloud, except AI is more sensitive to context quality.…
Read MoreIf You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?
So my question is this: Why vibe code with a language that has human convenience and ergonomics in view? Or…
Read MoreAI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key
Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building…
Read MoreHow I Shipped 100k LOC in 2 Weeks with Coding Agents
When we onboard developers, we give them documentation, coding standards, proven workflows, and collaboration tools. When we “deploy” AI agents,…
Read MoreHorses
Engines, steam engines, were invented in 1700.And what followed was 200 years of steady improvement, with engines getting 20% better…
Read MoreBuilding a Social Media Agent | goose
Source: Building a Social Media Agent | goose
Read MoreAI should only run as fast as we can catch up
Verification Engineering is the next Context Engineering AI can only reliably run as fast as we check their work. It’s…
Read MoreElicit Machine Learning Reading List
The purpose of this curriculum is to help new Elicit employees learn background in machine learning, with a focus on language models.…
Read MoreHas the cost of building software just dropped 90%?
Domain knowledge is the only moat So where does that leave us? Right now there is still enormous value in…
Read MoreMCPs for Developers Who Think They Don’t Need MCPs | goose
MCPs weren’t built just for developers.They’re not just for IDE copilots or code buddies. At Block, we use MCPs across…
Read MoreYour Spec Driven Workflow Is Just Waterfall With Extra Steps
AI coding tools were supposed to change everything. And they did! But maybe just not how we expected. The first…
Read MoreAI in 2025: gestalt — LessWrong
My view: compared to last year, AI is much more impressive but not proportionally more useful. They improved on some…
Read Morellm weights vs the papercuts of corporate
We are now one year in where a new category of companies has been founded whereby the majority of the…
Read MoreA Software Engineer’s Guide to Agentic Software Development
I’ve cracked the code on breaking the eternal cycle – features win, tech debt piles up, codebase becomes ‘legacy’, and…
Read MoreA pragmatic guide to LLM evals for devs
One word that keeps cropping up when I talk with software engineers who build large language model (LLM)-based solutions is…
Read MoreArchitecture, Specification, Execution: A Paradigm for AI-Accelerated Development
Source: Architecture, Specification, Execution: A Paradigm for AI-Accelerated Development
Read MoreState of AI | OpenRouter
Categories: How Are People Using LLMs?Understanding the distribution of tasks that users perform with LLMs is central to assessing real-world…
Read MoreDesign Systems for AI: Introducing the Context Engine | by Diana Wolosin | Design Systems | Nov, 2025 | Design Systems Collective
For years, design systems have served one primary purpose: humans. They document patterns, components, decisions, and principles, all presented in…
Read MoreUnderstanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl
After looking over the usages of the term, and some of the tools that claim to be implementing SDD, it…
Read MoreSpec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back
Spec-Driven Development (SDD) revives the old idea of heavy documentation before coding — an echo of the Waterfall era. While…
Read MoreIntroducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
With AI becoming a more widely adopted interface to the web, the principles of transparency, accountability, and respect for user…
Read MoreThree AI customisation concepts by Anna McPhee
I’ve narrowed this down to three concepts that feel foundational – the ones I keep coming back to when I’m…
Read MoreHow AI Is Redefining Software Engineering with Annie Vella, Distinguished Engineer
“Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things.…
Read MoreContext Engineering for Non Engineers
Source: Context Engineering for Non Engineers – Eleganthack
Read MoreWhat if you don’t need MCP at all?
I’m a simple boy, so I like simple things. Agents can run Bash and write code well. Bash and code…
Read MoreWriting a good CLAUDE.md
## Creating a good CLAUDE.md file The following section provides a number of recommendations on how to write a good…
Read MoreAgent Design Is Still Hard
TL;DR: Building agents is still messy. SDK abstractions break once you hit real tool use. Caching works better when you…
Read MoreMinefield Context Protocol
One of the concepts that are gaining lots of discussion is the “MCP” which stands for Model Context Protocol. Anytime…
Read MoreFrank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
I am so tired of hearing about AI. Unfortunately, this is a talk about AI. I’m trying to figure out…
Read MoreHow AI Changes Design AMA with Shamus Scott Grubb – YouTube
A shift is happening in Design… New tools. New workflows. New capabilities. Because… → As production gets automated → Thinking…
Read MoreDesign Thinking for AI: The 5-Stage Framework Every Builder Needs
AI has changed the texture of design. We’re not designing for people alone anymore, we’re designing with/for intelligence. That changes…
Read MoreNew Rules for Enterprise UX and AI
I recently attended the Enterprise UX conference in Amersfoort. The presentations made it very clear that successful AI integration requires…
Read MoreGenerative UI and the Ephemeral Interface
Generative UI and the Ephemeral Interface This week, Google debuted their Gemini 3 AI model to great fanfare and reviews.…
Read MoreEmily Campbell – AI UX Deep Dive – YouTube
In one of the most popular episodes yet, Vitaly Friedman talked about what’s next for AI design patterns (https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/vita…) .…
Read MoreWhy Software Development Fell to AI First
I find it’s always important to examine why you made a mistake. The worst mistake I ever made was reading…
Read MoreA Month of Chat-Oriented Programming
A Month of Chat-Oriented ProgrammingOr when did you last change your mind about something?Nick Radcliffe. 12th November 2025. TL;DR: I…
Read MoreDon’t Fight the Weights
Source: Don’t Fight the Weights
Read MoreSoftware Development in the Time of Strange New Angels
Five months ago, my lifelong profession of software development changed completely. My profession was born in the 1940s, created to…
Read MoreHow I use AI (Oct 2025) – Ben Stolovitz
Source: How I use AI (Oct 2025) – Ben Stolovitz
Read MoreYou Should Write An Agent · The Fly Blog
Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract. Boiling water: apply heat and wait. Others you really need to…
Read MoreWhen Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React?
2025 is a strange time to start a newsletter about web technology. The past four editions of WTN have focused…
Read MoreHow I Use Every Claude Code Feature
Having stuck to Claude Code for the last few months, this post is my set of reflections on Claude Code’s…
Read MoreAgents Rule of Two: A Practical Approach to AI Agent Security
At a high level, the Agents Rule of Two states that until robustness research allows us to reliably detect and…
Read MoreWill AI Agents Kill the Web as We Know It?
The way we interact with the web today is surprisingly manual. Want to book a flight? You’ll probably head to…
Read MoreMeasured AI | Note to Self
As a former full-time engineer, I really enjoy coding with AI tools and the tradeoffs are worthwhile for me. AI…
Read More3 practical ways LLMs can support design systems teams today
When AI and LLMs started creeping into the design systems discourse, the loudest use cases were about generating components and…
Read MoreCode like a surgeon
A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete…
Read MoreGlimpses of the Future: Speed & Swarms
Last month, I embarked on an AI-assisted code safari. I tried different applications (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Amp, etc.)…
Read MoreThe Majority AI View – Anil Dash
Even though AI has been the most-talked-about topic in tech for a few years now, we’re in an unusual situation…
Read MoreIdentifying Accessibility Data Gaps in CodeGen Models
Rather than relying on anecdotal evidence or cherry-picked examples, I built a systematic approach to evaluate how well LLMs —…
Read MoreGenerative AI in the Real World: Context Engineering with Drew Breunig – O’Reilly
In this episode, Ben Lorica and Drew Breunig, a strategist at the Overture Maps Foundation, talk all things context engineering:…
Read MoreJust Talk To It – the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering
I’ve been more quiet here lately as I’m knee-deep working on my latest project. Agentic engineering has become so good…
Read MoreWhere’s the AI design renaissance?
Source: Where’s the AI design renaissance?
Read MoreAustralia’s AI choice: Standards setter or technology taker? | Lowy Institute
AI is not born neutral. The rules that govern how it behaves are set by its authors: corporations and governments…
Read MoreThe Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer
In fact, if we are to trust the billion-dollar AI industry, the denizens of Hacker News (and its overlords), and…
Read MoreAgainst the protection of stocking frames
I think it’s long past time I start discussing “artificial intelligence” (“AI”) as a failed technology. Specifically, that large language…
Read MoreThe 5 levels of AI agent autonomy: learning from self-driving cars
How autonomous can AI agents become? We’re keen to access their power, but afraid of their unpredictability. Fortunately, it’s not…
Read More90%
Three months ago I said that AI changes everything. I came to that after plenty of skepticism. There are still…
Read MoreIf you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents
Using AI agents correctly is a process of reviewing code. If you’re good at reviewing code, you’ll be good at…
Read MoreAI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs
Software development was one of the first areas to adopt generative AI, but the promised revolution has so far delivered…
Read MoreGetting AI to Work in Complex Codebases
It seems pretty well-accepted that AI coding tools struggle with real production codebases. The Stanford study on AI’s impact on developer…
Read MoreScreen readers do not need to be saved by AI
Imagine listening to your favourite podcast. You rewind it to go over something you missed, but each time you replay…
Read MoreProgramming Deflation
The genies are out of the bottle. Let’s take as a given that augmented coding is steadily reducing the cost,…
Read MoreThe Agentic Web: How AI Agents Are Shaping the Web’s Future
Berners-Lee created the web in 1990 and in 1994 founded its governing body, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Although…
Read MoreAI Agents Will Transform the Online Economy
“The agentic Web is going to change everything,” says Wang, predicting that people will increasingly rely on agents as proxies…
Read MoreWhere AI is failing design systems, and where we are failing AI
Source: Where AI is failing design systems, and where we are failing AI – bencallahan.com
Read MoreI think “agent” may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now
Tools in a loop to achieve a goal #An LLM agent runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal.…
Read MoreAI Wants to Kill the Frontend Developer. It Won’t Work.
Every few years, someone declares my job dead. First it was Flash. Then it was Dreamweaver. Then it was “anyone…
Read MoreMy Vision for AI and the Web
AI will not all run locally yet. Large models still need server-side power. But smaller, specialized models can run on…
Read MoreWorking with Contexts – O’Reilly
Managing Your Context Is the Key to Successful Agents As frontier model context windows continue to grow,1 with many supporting…
Read MoreThe return of tech specs – Frontend Masters Blog
I’m confident that going forward, software engineers will need to relearn how to create detailed tech specs for complex changes.…
Read MorePrompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI — Smashing Magazine
Prompting is more than giving AI some instructions. You could think of it as a design act, part creative brief…
Read MoreAI agents and the web – A proposal to keep developers in the loop
WebMCP At its heart, WebMCP lets you list the actions (called “tools”) that an AI agent can perform on a…
Read MoreBuilding AI Products In The Probabilistic Era
Just as physics underwent a conceptual revolution when we moved past Newton’s deterministic universe, and into a strange and counterintuitive…
Read MoreThe Double-Edged Sustainability Sword Of AI In Web Design — Smashing Magazine
AI has introduced huge efficiencies for web designers and is frequently being touted as the key to unlocking sustainable design…
Read MoreHow to build an Agent, On-Device Edition
This post explores how to build an agent using an on-device model such as Phi-4-mini or Gemini Nano (available in…
Read MoreDesigning the Built-in AI Web APIs | Domenic Denicola
For the last year, I’ve been working as part of the Chrome built-in AI team on a set of APIs…
Read MoreWhat If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? | The New Yorker
Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around today’s artificial-intelligence technologies can be traced back to January, 2020, when a…
Read MoreA Gentle Introduction to Context Engineering in LLMs – KDnuggets
If I received a request that said, ‘Hey Kanwal, can you write an article about how LLMs work?’, that’s an…
Read MoreAI’s Security Crisis: Why Your Assistant Might Betray You – Last Week in AWS Podcast
On this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn talks with Simon Willison, founder of Datasette and creator of…
Read MoreIs AI about to expose just how mediocre most developers are?
Most code is crap, most developers are mediocre. In the age of AI-assisted coding, that’s a problem for them and…
Read MoreClaude Code: A Highly Agentic Coding Assistant
Use Claude code to explore, develop, test, refactor, and debug codebases.Extend the capabilities of Claude Code with MCP servers such…
Read MoreBeyond Tool Calling: Understanding MCP’s Three Core Interaction Types – Upsun Developer Center
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) changes how AI applications connect to external data and services. While most developers have experience…
Read MoreHow to build an AI design system
For over a decade, design systems have shaped how digital teams collaborate. They provide the scaffolding behind every scalable interface,…
Read MoreNo, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
A few months ago I went through a bit of a mental slump. I’ve always been confident of my abilities…
Read MoreThe Manifest Using AI responsibly in Development and Collaboration
AI seems to give us superpowers. But as with any powerful tool, we need principles to guide us. This manifesto…
Read MoreMy Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and…
Read MoreTalking Postgres with Claire Giordano | AI for data engineers with Simon Willison
It’s always a good day if you see a pelican. In Episode 30 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, open…
Read MoreThe Future Of Software Is Small
AI makes time very, very, very cheap. It’s not unreasonable to expect that within ~5 years, we’ll have consumer-grade hardware…
Read MoreDevelopers, Reinvented
A vital shift is underway in software development, one that redefines how we build, but also who we are as…
Read MoreAccessibility and the agentic web – TetraLogical
So, what if there was a different way? What if I could ask a digital personal shopping assistant to help…
Read MoreFrom Clippy to Copilot: UX Design in the Age of AI Browsers
Remember Clippy? The overly enthusiastic paperclip that would interrupt your Word document to ask if you were writing a letter?…
Read MoreVibe code is legacy code | Val Town Blog
Despite widespread confusion, Andrej Karpathy coined “vibe coding” as a kind of AI-assisted coding where you “forget that the code…
Read MoreAI Has Flipped Software Development
For years, it’s been faster to create mockups and prototypes of software than to ship it to production. As a…
Read MoreDisposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World
The software domain is splitting in two Software development is in the process of bifurcating into two very different domains:…
Read MoreAI Development Patterns: What Actually Works
After building 30+ repositories with AI coding tools, I’ve learned one thing: raw AI power without structure creates spectacular messes.…
Read MoreContext engineering for AI dev success
Many software development teams are benchmarking AI tools and deciding not to adopt them. They expect AI to work like…
Read MoreWhy “Context Engineering” Matters
When the term “context engineering” arrived, after Karpathy knighted it, there was a fair amount of push back. “Another marketing…
Read MoreEnough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs
In my opinion, one of the best critiques of modern AI design comes from a 1992 talk by the researcher…
Read MoreAI Is Just the Latest Frontend Killer. Don’t Panic.
AI coding assistants are great at scaffolding UIs, rewriting code, even generating decent boilerplate for common components. But they don’t…
Read MoreA RedMonk Conversation: How Shawn (swyx) Wang Defines the AI Engineer – RedMonk
In this RedMonk conversation, Shawn (swyx) Wang discusses the evolving role of the AI Engineer with Kate Holterhoff. They chat…
Read Moreelements | AI Focus
As much as struggle with on-device processing and the quality of its output compared to server models, I am excited…
Read MoreTeaching MCP Servers New Tricks: Challenges in Tool Discovery – AI Native Dev
You’ve probably noticed a pattern when you try new LLM-backed or adjacent tools, especially in the developer space. Once you…
Read MoreCoding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) –
Frontier LLMs such as Gemini 2.5 PRO, with their vast understanding of many topics and their ability to grasp thousands…
Read MoreAI Needs UI. It seems like every day, someone who…
It seems like every day, someone who doesn’t know anything about design proclaims “UI is going away” thanks to advances…
Read MoreThe hidden cost of design system entropy
Even the most meticulously maintained design systems accumulate what I call design system entropy – small inconsistencies that compound over time.…
Read MoreIt’s happening.
I didn’t wake up this morning hoping to write yet another thing about AI but here we go. Another proclamation…
Read MoreNobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet
The Great Experiment Nobody’s Running the Same Way There’s this moment in every new technology where everyone pretends they know…
Read MoreThe Great Flood of Adequate Software – by Scott Werner
Here’s what I think is about to happen: every task that used to require a team will become a Thursday…
Read MoreWhy I’m Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)
I’ve built 12+ production AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here’s why the current hype around autonomous…
Read MoreDelegation is the AI Metric that Matters
Plotting the Tasks Users Delegate to AI is Key for Product Planning & Monitoring Social Acceptance of AI Forget the…
Read MoreDesign Patterns For AI Interfaces — Smashing Magazine
So you need to design a new AI feature for your product. How would you start? How do you design…
Read MoreThe lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
Source: The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
Read MoreExpert Generalists
As computer systems get more sophisticated we’ve seen a growing trend to value deep specialists. But we’ve found that our…
Read MoreI’m Losing All Trust in the AI Industry – by Alberto Romero
I think the AI industry is facing a handful of urgent problems it’s not addressing adequately. I believe everything I…
Read MoreIdentify, solve, verify
The more time I spend using LLMs for code, the less I worry for my career – even as their…
Read MoreThe New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It’s Context Engineering
Context Engineering is new term gaining traction in the AI world. The conversation is shifting from “prompt engineering” to a…
Read MoreContext engineering
Source: Context engineering
Read MorePrompts vs. Context
I’m not the only one thinking about how context management is the key to good LLM applications. Since publishing our…
Read MoreDesign Leadership in the Age of AI: Seize the Narrative Before It’s Too Late
AI is transforming the way we work — automating production, collapsing handoffs, and enabling non-designers to ship work that once…
Read MoreCommon AI Product Issues
At this point, almost every software domain has launched or explored AI features. Despite the wide range of use cases,…
Read MoreThe End of Code as We Know It (The Third Wave is Here) – YouTube
The “Third Wave” of Software: Moving from classical source code to natural language instructions.English as Code: How LLMs are turning…
Read MoreAndrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
0:49 – Imo fair to say that software is changing quite fundamentally again. LLMs are a new kind of computer,…
Read MoreParallelizing AI Coding Agents – AI Native Dev
AI coding environments have evolved rapidly, from simple chat-based prompting, to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and more recently to autonomous agents.…
Read MoreNavigating AI Native Development with Simon Maple – YouTube
AI is reshaping the way we build software, shifting from code-centric to spec-centric development, where developers define what they want,…
Read MoreA quote from Arvind Narayanan
Can you break up your own job into a set of well-defined tasks such that if each of them is…
Read MoreAgentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
We stress-tested 16 leading models from multiple developers in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky agentic behaviors before they…
Read Morethe six-month recap: closing talk on AI at Web Directions, Melbourne, June 2025
Welcome back to our final session at WebDirections. We’re definitely on the glide path—though I’m not sure if we’re smoothly…
Read MoreCritical questions for design leaders working with artificial intelligence, New York 2025 | Leading Design
Forty design leaders from around the world gathered at L’Alliance New York to shape a shared vision for the future…
Read MoreAI-assisted coding for teams that can’t get away with vibes
AI should be adopted by serious engineering teams that want to build thoughtful, well-crafted products. This requires skillful usage of…
Read MoreAI Product Managers Will Be In-Demand
Many companies have an Engineer:PM ratio of, say, 6:1. (The ratio varies widely by company and industry, and anywhere from…
Read MoreDesign Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections
As long as both agents and their defenses rely on the current class of language models, we believe it is…
Read MoreA new breed of GenAI Application Engineers
There’s a new breed of GenAI Application Engineers who can build more-powerful applications faster than was possible before, thanks to…
Read MoreMy AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog
Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration…
Read MoreComma v0.1 1T and 2T—7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text
Source: Comma v0.1 1T and 2T—7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text
Read MoreAI-assisted development needs automated tests
I wonder if one of the reasons I’m finding LLMs so much more useful for coding than a lot of…
Read MoreWill the Model Eat Your Stack? | Drew Breunig
The haunting question facing every AI product team: what can you build today that won’t be subsumed by tomorrow’s model?A…
Read MoreThe Recurring Cycle of ‘Developer Replacement’ Hype
From NoCode to AI-AssistedEvery few years, a shiny new technology emerges that promises to make software developers obsolete. The headlines…
Read MoreMicrosoft is opening its on-device AI models up to web apps in Edge
Web developers will be able to start leveraging on-device AI in Microsoft’s Edge browser soon, using new APIs that can…
Read MoreWhat Would “Good” AI Look Like? – Anil Dash
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Read MoreAfter months of coding with LLMs, I’m going back to using my brain
Source: After months of coding with LLMs, I’m going back to using my brain • albertofortin.com
Read MoreUnlocking Generative AI in your Web App
Source: Unlocking Generative AI in your Web App － firt.dev
Read MoreBuilding software on top of Large Language Models
I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal…
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Vision Language Models (VLMs) are the talk of the town. In a previous blog post (from April 2024), we talked a lot about…
Read MoreGenAI coding: most teams aren’t ready
Source: GenAI coding: most teams aren’t ready | Rob Bowley
Read MoreThe Next Evolutionary Step – Annie Vella
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Read MoreWhy developers and their bosses disagree over generative AI
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Read MoreAs an Experienced LLM User, I Actually Don’t Use Generative LLMs Often
Although I don’t claim to the best user of modern LLMs out there, I’ve had plenty of experience working against…
Read MoreCould AI convert all the PDF forms on GOV.UK into web forms?
Last year I wrote about a tool I built that uses AI to generate GOV.UK styled web versions of PDF forms. This is…
Read MorePost-Chat UI
Source: Post-Chat UI – Allen Pike
Read MoreTwo publishers and three authors fail to understand what “vibe coding” means
Vibe coding does not mean “using AI tools to help write code”. It means “generating code with AI without caring…
Read MoreThe Hidden Cost of AI Coding
Instead of that deep immersion where I’d craft each function, I’m now more like a curator? I describe what I…
Read MoreDecent Apps
A decent app is a fully local web app—everything, including the LLM, runs in the user’s browser. A decent app…
Read MorePete Koomen
When I use AI to build software I feel like I can create almost anything I can imagine very quickly.…
Read MoreAI Agents, meet Test Driven Development
Historically with Test Driven Development (TDD), the thing that you’re testing is predictable. You expect the same outputs given a…
Read MoreYou Can’t Prompt Your Way to Intuition
We don’t talk enough about the feeling of learning something deeply – the slow, sometimes frustrating and painful process that forges real…
Read MoreThe Post-Developer Era • Josh W. Comeau
Two years ago, in March 2023, I published a blog post called “The End of Front-End Development”. This was right…
Read More(5278) Stop Managing AI Projects Like Traditional Software – YouTube
We’ll show you why conventional approaches to product development break down when building AI and what to do instead.
Read MoreLLMs can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything • The Register
Exploiting hallucinated package names represents a form of typosquatting, where variations or misspellings of common terms are used to dupe…
Read MorePattern #1: From Producer to Manager – AI Native Dev
AI produces the code, you review it It all started with simple code autocompletion in our IDEs. But the real…
Read MoreThe Dynamic Between Domain Experts & Developers Has Shifted
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Read More‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers – Aftermath
We’re a few years into a supposed artificial intelligence revolution, which could and should have been about reducing mundane tasks…
Read MoreAI Native development principles and practices | Patrick Debois
Read Moreif you aren’t redlining the LLM, you aren’t headlining
There’s something cooked about Windsurf/Cursors’ go-to-market pricing – there’s no way they are turning a profit at $50/month. $50/month gets…
Read MoreVibe Coding: Democratizing Software, One Snapshot at a Time – AI Native Dev
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Read MoreI don’t know what MCP is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask
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Read MoreRevenge of the junior developer
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Read MoreA Model Context Protocol Server (MCP) for Microsoft Paint
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Read MoreWhy Generalists Own the Future
Source: Why Generalists Own the Future
Read MoreShift Left on Security: Empower Full-Stack Devs to Build Safer Code | Patreon
For most developers, we see securing secret keys and requiring authentication for API endpoints as basic coding, but AI won’t.…
Read MoreHow Software Engineers Actually Use AI
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Read MoreDeep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT – YouTube
This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related…
Read MoreA Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products
Source: A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products – Hamel’s Blog
Read MoreLeading Effective Engineering Teams in the Age of GenAI
Using AI in software development is not about writing more code faster; it’s about building better software. It’s up to…
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Read MoreAI Blindspots
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Read MoreNot all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)
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Read MoreMCPs are APIs for LLMs
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Read MoreVibe-designing
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Read MoreIntroducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters
We tend to focus on the generative aspect of large language models, the outputs they can create, the text, images…
Read MoreDeepSeek-R1 Uncensored, QwQ-32B Puts Reasoning in Smaller Model, and more…
Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be…
Read MoreAI and Accessibility: the Good, the Bad, and the Bollocks
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Read MoreHere’s how I use LLMs to help me write code
Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been…
Read MoreVibe coding, some thoughts and predictions – by Andrew Chen
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Read MoreAI is reshaping UI — have you noticed the biggest change yet?
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Read MoreState of AI 2025
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Read MoreWill the future of software development run on vibes?
Instead of being about control and precision, vibe coding is all about surrendering to the flow. On February 2, Karpathy…
Read MoreFrom Design doc to code: the Groundhog AI coding assistant (and new Cursor meta)
Today, alongside with teaching you the technique I’m announcing the start of a new open-source (yes, I’m doing this as…
Read MoreAI vs The Expert
Eleven years ago, comedy sketch The Expert had software engineers (and other misunderstood specialists) laughing to tears at the relatability…
Read MoreHallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
A surprisingly common complaint I see from developers who have tried using LLMs for code is that they encountered a…
Read MoreNotes from my Accessibility and Gen AI podcast appearence
I actually use Large Language Models for most of my alt text these days. Whenever I tweet an image or…
Read Morewandler
run ai in your browserinspired by the ▲ AI SDK & built on top of 🤗 transformers.js Source: wandler
Read MoreWhy AI Needs Information Architecture
One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “is information architecture still relevant now that we have AI?”Of course,…
Read MoreDear Student: Yes, AI is here, you’re screwed unless you take action…
It’s just facts, I’m a straight shooter. I’d rather tell it to you straight and provide actionable advice then placate…
Read MoreAI is Stifling Tech Adoption
I propose that the advent and integration of AI models into the workflows of developers has stifled the adoption of…
Read MoreComparing local large language models for alt-text generation
I tested 12 LLMs — 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based — to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for…
Read MoreMy LLM codegen workflow atm
I have been building so many small products using LLMs. It has been fun, and useful. However, there are pitfalls…
Read MoreIntroducing Web Applets, Rupert Manfredi
Natural language UIs are touted by many to be the future of user interfaces. But right now, they still look…
Read MoreBuild a local and offline-capable chatbot with WebLLM
Now that you better understand client-side AI, you’re ready to add WebLLM to a to-do list web application. You can…
Read MoreThe AI Architect — Bret Taylor
The legendary CEO of Sierra, Chairman of OpenAI, and creator of Google Maps/Facebook Likes on the future of Software Engineering,…
Read MoreIntroducing the Anthropic Economic Index \ Anthropic
In the coming years, AI systems will have a major impact on the ways people work. For that reason, we’re…
Read MoreThe End of Programming as We Know It – O’Reilly
There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t…
Read MoreThe LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers
There is so much debate online about the usefulness of LLMs. While some people see giant leaps in productivity, others…
Read MoreThe future belongs to idea guys who can just do things
There, I said it. I seriously can’t see a path forward where the majority of software engineers are doing artisanal…
Read MoreLife Is More Than an Engineering Problem
Lately, Chiang has trained his eye on artificial intelligence. And Chiang’s takes haven’t gone unnoticed. In a conversation I had…
Read MoreRunning Inference In Web Extensions
We’ve recently shipped a new component inside of Firefox that leverages Transformers.js (a JavaScript equivalent of Hugging Face’s Transformers Python…
Read MoreWhat I’ve learned about writing AI apps so far
I started writing a post called “how to write AI apps” but it was over-reach so I scaled it back…
Read MoreOn-Device AI: Building Smarter, Faster, And Private Applications — Smashing Magazine
Shouldn’t there be a way to keep your apps or project data private and improve performance by reducing server latency?…
Read MoreFive things privacy experts know about AI
In November, I participated in a technologist roundtable about privacy and AI, for an audience of policy folks and regulators.…
Read MoreEnglish will become the most popular development language in 6 years
I found myself reflecting on this myself, and landing on a provocative thought. What if the most popular development language…
Read MoreHow I’d use generative AI to modernize an app
So I won’t sit here and tell you that generative AI makes app modernization easy. Nothing does. It’s hard work…
Read Morecrawshaw – 2025-01-06
This document is a summary of my personal experiences using generative models while programming over the past year. It has…
Read MoreThe death of the stubborn developer
Here’s the rub: As of about May, LLMs can now execute most of the leaf tasks and even some higher-level…
Read MoreBringing AI to the Browser – On-Device AI with the Web AI Toolkit
Welcome! Today we will be covering On-Device AI for Web Apps. Yes, you can run AI models on the users…
Read MoreTop 5 AI Engineering Trends of 2024 – The New Stack
This time last year, I wrote that AI engineering in 2023 was defined by a proliferation of LLMs and an…
Read MoreClient-side AI to combat online toxicity
Hate speech, harassment, and online abuse have become a pervasive issue online. Toxic comments silence important voices and drive users…
Read MoreThe Coming Bifurcation of the Web: AgentWeb vs ArtisanWeb
The web is splitting into two distinct futures: one driven by relentless AI agents, the other shaped by human hands.…
Read MoreBuilding LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant business
In the 1960s, airlines were The Future. That is why old films have so many swish shots of airports in…
Read MorePrinciples of Developer AI Product Development
How do you build products and platforms for developers in a world that contains probabilistic black boxes that surprise you…
Read MoreAI for Web Work
Kevin Powell pitted several AI models against each other in a video focused on CSS questions and found Claude to…
Read MoreAI Scams Are the Point | The New Republic
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor open their new book, AI Snake Oil, with a thought experiment: Imagine a world where…
Read MoreAmelia Wattenberger
I think most people use chatbots only as a way to steer somewhere. Answer a question, edit some text, write…
Read MoreWill we care about frameworks in the future?
I’m of the belief that software development is entering a radical shift that is currently driven by agents like Replit’s…
Read MoreThe Future of Design: How AI is Shifting Designers from Makers to Curators
Designers have traditionally been valued not only for their expertise with tools but for their unique aesthetic judgments, which bring…
Read MoreBinary vector embeddings are so cool
Embeddings let you turn an arbitrary piece of text into a series of numbers that manage to represent the meaning…
Read MoreHappy birthday to the BBC In Our Time podcast, 20 years old today (Interconnected)
That development time acceleration of 4 days down to 20 minutes… that’s equivalent to about 10 years of Moore’s Law…
Read MoreWhy AI coding assistants might not help devs much
There’s a gap between expectations, experience, and metrics when it comes to AI code assistants, according to a recent study…
Read MoreSoftware engineering reimagined for the AI-Native era
AI is redefining the software development process. By viewing development through a lens of problem-solving rather than code creation, engineers…
Read MoreA Plea for Sober AI
Source: A Plea for Sober AI | Drew Breunig
Read MoreThe 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs
It gets confusing! For laypeople, it’s hard to nail down what AI actually does (and doesn’t) do. For those in…
Read MoreEval-driven development: Build better AI faster
AI changes how we build software. In combination with developers, it creates a positive feedback loop where we can achieve…
Read MoreExploring the AI Solution Space
The popular imagination has equated intelligence with convincing conversation since Alan Turing proposed his “imitation game” in 1950. The concept…
Read MoreExploring the AI Solution Space
As I’ve been experimenting with AI, I’ve wondered what “used well” might look like. There are several scenarios, and they’re…
Read MoreModeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience. | Irrational Exuberance
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To…
Read MoreNotes on using LLMs for code
I was recently the guest on TWIML—the This Week in Machine Learning & AI podcast. Our episode is titled Supercharging…
Read MoreWeb Developers, AI, and Development Fundamentals
Even the best AI can only take you so far without a solid foundation in development fundamentals. Developers need to…
Read MoreMapping the landscape of gen-AI product user experience (Interconnected)
One question is always: how should users use this? Or rather, how could they use this, because the best design…
Read MoreThe Shape of Sentient Design
What are the new design patterns, and which old ones fall away? How do you get your head around all…
Read MoreAlexandra White: Digital Creator
As generative AI has become more widely available, we’ve seen how widely the quality of results can vary. In fact,…
Read MoreChatGPT Code: Is the AI Actually Good At Writing Code? – IEEE Spectrum
Programmers have spent decades writing code for AI models, and now, in a full circle moment, AI is being used…
Read MoreWeb AI Showcase
Source: Web AI Showcase
Read MoreWebNN Developer Preview
Run ONNX models in the browser with WebNN. The developer preview unlocks interactive ML on the web that benefits from…
Read MoreTurning the Tables on AI
Now, with a tool that might help us think… How about using AI not to think less but more? But…
Read MoreHow to Fix “AI’s Original Sin” – O’Reilly
But it seems less important to get into the fine points of copyright law and arguments over liability for infringement,…
Read MoreApplied LLMs – What We’ve Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs
We’ve spent the past year building, and have discovered many sharp edges along the way. While we don’t claim to…
Read MoreHome-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
For the last ~year I’ve been keeping a close eye on how language models capabilities meaningfully change the speed, ease,…
Read MoreLiving documents as an AI UX pattern
As large language models (LLMs) take the tech world by storm, every product is suddenly sprouting an embedded chat box.…
Read MoreA Plea for Sober AI | Drew Breunig
Below all this hype, there’s a quiet revolution happening. I keep meeting new companies and seeing new products that make…
Read MorePersonal Explorations in Distributed Cognition with Foundation Models | by Mike Kuniavsky | Apr, 2024 | Medium
In this blog post I want to start documenting how I use foundation models in my daily life practice to…
Read MoreLooking for AI use-cases — Benedict Evans
We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone,…
Read MoreConsiderations for AI Opt-Out
Creating a Large Language Model (LLM) requires a lot of data – as implied by the name, LLMs need voluminous…
Read MoreAI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?
But there is a yawning gap between “AI tools can be handy for some things” and the kinds of stories…
Read MoreModels All The Way Down
What this training set contains is extremely important. More than any other thing, it will influence what your model can…
Read MoreHistorical analogies for large language models
How will large language models (LLMs) change the world ?No one knows. With such uncertainty, a good exercise is to…
Read MoreCan generative AI help write accessible code? – TetraLogical
Léonie Watson asked three free Generative AI tools some typical questions about accessible code. The tools were Bard (now Gemini)…
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