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oreilly.com

How to write a good spec for AI Agents

Simply throwing a massive spec at an AI agent doesn’t work—context window limits and the model’s “attention budget” get in the way.

zknill.io

If code is cheap, intent is the currency

Apparently writing code is cheap now. So since the barrier to producing code is gone, the intent behind the code is the most important bit.

boristane.com

The software development lifecycle is dead

AI agents didn’t make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that’s left is context.

leadership.garden

The work moved: what the AI coding debate actually agrees on

AI agents generate 98% more PRs but reviews take 91% longer. The work didn’t disappear — it moved.

ratfactor.com

A programmer’s loss of identity

That lost identity was "computer programmer" and it was arguably one of the biggest.

natemeyvis.com

On cognitive debt

AI-generated codebases are at risk of falling into a state where nobody knows how they work.

addyosmani.com

Agentic Engineering

Agentic Engineering is a disciplined approach to AI-assisted software development that emphasizes human oversight and engineering rigor.

unsung.aresluna.org

How to make sure a designer never files a bug again

The best places I’ve worked were filled with shared trust and treated bugs as a joined responsibility of everyone.

localghost.dev

Stop generating, start thinking

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

evjang.com

As rocks may think

Whenever logical processes of thought are employed there is an opportunity for the machine.

maggieappleton.com

Gas Town’s agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code.

codegood.co

The context collapse problem

AI coding tools amplify whatever they can access. In codebases where institutional knowledge lives in engineers’ heads only, AI amplifies nothing.

thoughtfuleng.substack.com

Junior developers in the Age of AI

Companies are ditching junior engineers en masse. They’ll tell you it’s because AI writes better code. They’re right...but also missing the point.

dri.es

Software as clay on the wheel

You're shaping the code or text the way a potter shapes clay: push a little, spin the wheel, look, push again.

veen.com

On coding agents and the future of design

How Claude Code is showing us what apps may become.

tante.cc

Software as fast fashion

Clothes have never been cheaper. Same thing is happening with software.

addyosmani.com

21 lessons from 14 years at Google

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

bit.ly

Vibe Coding Camp: build real products with AISponsored

A hands-on program for designers and PMs who want to actually build—using Cursor, Supabase, Vercel, and AI-first workflows.

chrisloy.dev

The rise of industrial software

AI coding is making available paths of production which are cheaper, faster, and increasingly disconnected from the expertise of humans.

world.hey.com

Back to the starting line

Programming with AI is still in its infancy, and yet it has already redefined what programming will be about in the immediate future.