The Agent-Era Career
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. If the AI layer get…
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Teaching Coding When AI Can Write the Code
For as long as we’ve taught programming, the student’s code has provided a window into the students’ thinking. Errors, the code structure, the awkwa…
Radar Trends to Watch: June 2026
Coauthored with Claude Agents are making the transition from performing tasks to running operations. The Cloudflare and Stripe partnership ships an…
From Capabilities to Responsibilities
Human-in-the-Loop becomes an operational bottleneck In my previous article, ”The Missing Layer in Agentic AI,” I argued that AI agents need a determ…
Eating My Own Dog Food: How I Used the Framework to Write the Post About the Framework
In “Don’t Automate Your Moat,” I argue that engineering organizations should match AI autonomy to two independent dimensions: business risk and comp…
Radar Trends to Watch: May 2026
The most significant tension in this issue is between two companies making different decisions about how to handle AI with frontier security capabil…
This Week in AI: The Guardrails Are Getting Tested
In the latest episode of This Week in AI, host Vicki Reyzelman, a solutions engineer with Akamai, said the systems keeping AI secure, powered, and p…
Tokens Aren’t Dollars
The following article originally appeared on Tim O’Brien’s Medium blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. AI costs are easy…
Writing with AI
A lot of professional writers say they never do it. And for writers who do, the consequences can be serious. Book contracts have been withdrawn. Peo…
The Identity Crisis No One Planned For: Governing Nonhuman Agents at Enterprise Scale
For a decade, identity and access management meant one thing: governing the humans who log in. Employee joins, gets provisioned, gets a manager, get…
Effective Patterns for Advanced MCP Usage
The following article originally appeared on PulseMCP’s blog and is being republished here with the authors’ permission. Most MCP demos feature a si…
When Smaller Models Win
The following article originally appeared on the Asimov’s Addendum blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Even the best AI…
The Design System as the Control Plane for AI-Generated UI
AI-assisted development has made it easier to generate frontend code quickly. A developer can ask for a form, a dashboard widget, a settings page, o…
Shadow Agents, Standing Privileges, and the Governance Gap Between Deployment and Discovery
There was a brief window where AI agent security felt like a future problem. Organizations deployed copilots, coding assistants, and autonomous work…
Data Intelligence: Building Your Competitive Advantage in the Era of AI
To keep pace with modern business, data strategy is shifting toward more autonomous real-time systems that deliver intelligence at the moment decisi…
Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Never Type Again with Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt, founder of the podcast hosting platform Castos, joined this episode of Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes to show how he uses the Codex appli…
The Agent-Era Career
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. If the AI layer get…
This Week in AI: The Web Belongs to Agents Now
AI agents keep getting smarter, but the bigger story this week is how much they’re reshaping the systems around them. Host Eric Freeman, an O’Reilly…
Principal Drift in Practice
In 2026, the software engineering community is divided by a simple question: Should AI engineers still read the code generated by their agents? One…
When Your Buyer Is an AI Agent
In 2021, Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, deployed AI agents from a startup called Pactum to negotiate freight lane contracts…
When Guardrails Go Wrong
The latest round of restrictions and safeguards for frontier models are overly fussy and limiting. A Claude skill that I created demonstrates what h…
Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path?
The following article originally appeared on the Tech Policy Press site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In Washington, A…
Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: From Prompting to Loop Engineering with Ofer Mendelevitch
Ofer Mendelevitch, head of developer relations at BAND, used this episode of Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes to trace how coding workflows can give agen…
What’s an Orchestrator—and Why Does Software Need One?
The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Everybody’s talking about the death…
When AI Writes the Code, Specifications Need an Exit Strategy
The following article has been extended and rewritten by Markus Eisele from The Main Thread and is being republished here with the author’s permissi…
This Week in AI: When agents outnumber people
AI agents are multiplying, and many of the systems used to manage them weren’t designed for their scale or speed. This week, host Vicki Reyzelman, a…
The Intent Debt
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Technical debt live…
Prompt Debt and “Fighting the Weights”
Drew Breunig is one of the smartest voices writing about AI today. He’s the CEO and co-founder of cmpnd.ai, and a long-time hacker with a dept…
Why “It Depends” Is the Most Future-Proof Phrase in Software
Ask an architect almost any question and you’ll get the same answer: It depends. For years this answer has been the punchline of jokes about a…
The Two Pillars of Post-training: Reinforcement Learning and Supervised Fine-Tuning
This is the second article in Sharon Zhou’s post-training series. Read part 1 here. In the first post of this series, you learned how post-training…