AI agents
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.