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The following article originally appeared on the Asimov’s Addendum Substack and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. Bill …
This is the seventh article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, part two here, part three…
Last week, we had our first Infrastructure & Ops superstream of 2026, Platform Engineering in the Age of AI. Our speakers explored a range of topi…
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. The default behavior of any A…
Your AI agent booked a meeting, summarized a financial report, and emailed the highlights to three stakeholders. To do this, it called a calendar agen…
For over a century, both the prestige and budget of a corporate department have been measured by a single crude metric: headcount. If you manage 500 p…
The following article originally appeared on the Elevate newsletter and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. Peek under the hood…
Another day, another example of an AI Agent “running rogue” and doing something the human operator didn’t want it to do. The tl;dr i…
Companies everywhere are trying to leverage AI to boost internal productivity metrics. Some, like Ramp and Intercom, are succeeding. Many are failing.…
This article was originally published on Addy Osmani’s blog. It’s being reposted here with the author’s permission. Roughly: Anytime you find an agent…
This is the sixth article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, part two here, part three here, part four …
Ryan Carson has built companies for 25 years, including Treehouse, which taught over a million people to code. He knows what it takes to grow a team. …
I just sat in a room full of data engineers the other week who were worrying about AI automating them out of work the same way auto manufacturing in D…
Steve Yegge’s article about programmer burnout (“The AI Vampire”) along with Margaret Storey’s article about Cognitive Debt started an ongoing convers…
Personal AI doesn’t have to run your life to change it. It just must see you clearly and feed your behavior back to you in a way you can’t dodge. Once…
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 determin…
As enterprise AI agent adoption scales, the absence of centralized, organization-level tool infrastructure is producing compounding costs. When adopti…
Every data leader has a version of this story. A regulatory audit surfaces a metric that doesn’t match across systems. A board member catches co…
In “Don’t Automate Your Moat,” I argue that engineering organizations should match AI autonomy to two independent dimensions: business risk and compet…
Everyone is adopting AI coding tools. Engineers are writing code faster than ever. But are organizations actually delivering value faster? That’s not …
The most significant tension in this issue is between two companies making different decisions about how to handle AI with frontier security capabilit…
The release of Gemma 4 has added energy to the discussion of local models and their importance. Models that you can download and run on hardware you o…
Cat Wu leads product for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, so she’s well-versed in building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. And …
This is the fifth article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, part two here, part three here, and part f…
I was talking to a senior engineer at a well-funded company not long ago. I asked him to walk me through a critical algorithm at the heart of their pr…
We tend to assume that if every part of a system behaves correctly, the system itself will behave correctly. That assumption is deeply embedded in how…
A colleague told me something recently that I keep thinking about. She said, unprompted, that she appreciated seeing both sides of my AI conversations…
ChatGPT has been publicly available for over three years now, and generative AI is woven into the tools students use every day: web search, word proce…
Enterprise AI governance still authorizes agents as if they were stable software artifacts.They are not. An enterprise deploys a LangChain-based resea…
The following article originally appeared on the Asimov’s Addendum Substack and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Ar…