AI agents
Leaky Assembly Lines: Agents, Infinite Code, and the New Software Fragility
AI agents are rewriting software engineering at industrial speed, but context, code quality, and burnout risks are piling up fast. This week’s roundup dives into the cracks, the assembly lines, and where human judgment is needed most.
Of Modular Mirages and Trust Falls: What Still Trips Up Software Engineering in 2026
From agent UIs to trust models and reproducibility battles, this week’s software engineering reads expose where abstractions fail and social contracts still matter. The future feels modular—but never frictionless.
AI Assistants, Vibe Coding, and Teamwork: Engineering’s Fresh New Rhythms
AI assistants and coding agents are taking center stage: from DIY personal helpers to open-source platforms, software teams worldwide are choosing how—and where—to add more 'vibe' to their work. This post explores how these tools empower, not replace, today's engineers.
AI Memory, Product Empathy, and the Never-Ending Supply Chain Panic
AI agents with real memory, product-minded engineers, and persistent supply-chain threats are changing the rules. Leadership, security, and strong fundamentals are table stakes. Plus: why teams still need a place for beginner engineers.
From Guardrails to Previews: How AI—and the Occasional 40-Line Fix—Is Reshaping Software Engineering
AI agents, live previews, 400x optimizations, and stubbornly human design: this week in software engineering unpacks why guardrails, outcome verification, and blended team rituals are rewriting what it means to ship code in 2026.
Agents Everywhere, Humans on Guard: A Week of Skepticism, Collaboration, and Doom in Dev Tools
Google and Microsoft push agentic AI from Go to Copilot, Stack Overflow points to data curation and human validation, and yes, TypeScript can now run Doom. Agents, skepticism, and a dash of meme magic all feature this week.
Invisible Agents, Complicated Simplicity: What Software Engineering Is Chasing This Week
AI and automation promise cleaner workflows, but engineers now navigate unseen bottlenecks and new complexities. From agentic UIs to nostalgic UX, simplicity in software remains a moving target.
How Many Cracks Can Smart Software Hide? AI Agents, Auth, and the Art of Outage Recovery
From AI agents that speed up everything except the hard parts, to cloud outages that remind us it’s never just DNS, software engineering this week stays sharp, surprising, and sneakily philosophical. Whatever paradigm you pick, real-world complexity always gets the last word.
Of Agents and Outages: Software’s Fragile, Automated Reality
AI agents are eating away at software's grunt work, but the truly irreplaceable code is still written (and saved) by humans—just ask /dev/null or AWS's DNS enactors. This week’s roundup finds the engineered, agentic, and purely accidental ways that code, teams, and outages collide.
Chaos, Context, and Collaboration: This Week’s Software Engineering Realism
From chaos-driven testing to AI agents running amok and Python’s new speed tweaks, software engineering this week was all about incremental evolution, not revolutions.
Leaking Tokens, Agent Invasions, and the Politics of Software Progress
This week's roundup spotlights how open models reveal secrets, agent frameworks invade every stack, and infrastructure innovation redefines how—and who—builds software. Skeptics invited.