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dropbox.tech

Rethinking engineering productivity in the age of AI agents

How Dropbox is moving towards agentic systems that can execute scoped tasks, and how we’re building platforms to support those workflows.

dubroy.com

Fast is better than slow

About 10 years ago, I realized all the best programmers I had worked with had something in common: they were fast.

heyneuma.com

A designer’s guide to opening Xcode for the first time

The MCPs that make Claude Code useful for iOS, and a working app on your phone by the end of the afternoon.

seangoedecke.com

Prompts are technical debt too

How to minimize custom prompting and rely on upstream tool updates.

tokenblast.cc

TokenBlast

Interactive config generator for Claude Code environment flags. Find your preferred balance of cost, tokens, and thinking.

tenphi.me

Why I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable

Why predictable CSS state resolution matters, and how Tasty approaches it with state maps and non-overlapping selectors.

css-tricks.com

Stack Overflow: when we stop asking

It still hits like a ton of bricks to see the steep decline in Stack Overflow questions. What does that mean about learning in our industry?

andymatuschak.org

Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies

On coding agents, malleable software, and the future of interface invention.

larsfaye.com

Agentic coding is a trap

Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.

thetypicalset.com

The bottleneck was never the code

The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.

ajitem.com

Six characters

What the PNR locator on your boarding pass actually contains, and why fare calculations are written in a currency that does not exist.

frontendmasters.com

AI-generated UI is inaccessible by default

It doesn’t mean you can’t get AI to help with accessible code, you’ve just got to know what you’re doing.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Tokenmaxxing as a weird new trend

Devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.

bradfrost.com

Mouth Coding

Talking websites into existence.

andrewmurphy.io

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem, you have a problem

AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it.

maggieappleton.com

One developer, two dozen agents, zero alignment

Why we need collaborative AI engineering.

lukew.com

The new designer/developer collaboration

A collaboration model that shined a light on how things could (no, should) be.

matthiasott.com

Design and engineering, as one

Most of us are still running product teams on a model that was designed for a problem we don’t have.

factory.ai

How missions work

Agent sessions work well for focused tasks, but most real projects are too broad and complex for a single context window.

perevillega.com

Building agent memory that survives between sessions

Two practical approaches to the same insight: memory is a design problem, not a tooling problem.