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Code Review After Code Gets Cheap
In my previous article, I argued that agentic development needs enough specification to make correctness checkable. A quick prompt can get implement…
Spotify More Than Doubled Monthly Code Changes as AI Accelerated Development
Spotify reports that AI-assisted development more than doubled monthly merged changes, prompting a review of quality and reliability controls across…
Bit Cloud’s next chapter starts after the AI builds your app
For many developers, building an application from an AI prompt is already part of the workday. Turning that first version The post Bit Cloud’s next…
The Future of Software May Be Conversational Rather Than Autonomous
The following article originally appeared on Robert Englander’s blog site and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. The software indu…
CRA readiness starts in the codebase
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is often discussed as a policy or reporting challenge. But for organizations that build products The post CRA readine…
Evaluating AI-Generated Frontend Code: What Should We Actually Test?
AI can now generate a surprising amount of frontend code from a short description. A developer can ask for a form, a table, a modal, a settings page…
Human Judgment Doesn’t Leave the Software Factory, It Relocates
The following article originally appeared on Elevate and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. A software factory is a repeatable loo…
Will TypeSafe’s Jev Change How We Build AI Applications?
The following article originally appeared on LinkedIn and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. This week the AI community was in upr…
MCP Is Not Just Another API Standard
Ask most engineers what MCP is and you’ll get the same answer: a way to plug tools into an LLM. Fair enough, as far as it goes. But that description…
Why human oversight is shifting from writing code to defining requirements
This walks through the pipeline our agents operate inside—from a recorded scoping meeting through unit specs, spec review, generated code, The…
“Everyone’s in a race to replace GitHub”: Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete
Something of a consensus has emerged from the developer fraternity in 2026 — GitHub, a platform built substantively for human The post “Everyo…
OpenAI’s safety system is already cutting off API responses mid-task
AI companies have spent the last few years competing to build the best models, faster than the other, with each The post OpenAI’s safety syste…
Shopify spent years on React Native — then rebuilt everything in 12 weeks
In 2020, Shopify made a bet that resonated across the developer world by writing mobile code once in React Native The post Shopify spent years on Re…
Runway wants to generate software as you use it. Solaris is its first step.
Runway introduced Solaris on Monday, the first model of a new class of AI systems it calls Interface World Models, The post Runway wants to generate…
CLI or IDE? Build in verification first
The argument over where AI coding agents belong,  in an integrated development environment (IDE) or at the command line interface The post CLI…
Warp wants to make it easier to build your software factory
On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, open infrastructure for building cloud software factories, agentic systems that automate work across the…
SpaceXAI Launches Grok Bot for Autonomous AI Agents
SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, a system of persistent AI agents that operate on dedicated cloud computers and can interact with websites, applica…
LLM-Generated GraphQL Mocks Arrive at Airbnb and Expedia, While the Spec Lags Behind
Expedia Group has open-sourced mockql-rs, a Rust CLI that fills @mock-annotated GraphQL fields with LLM-generated data at request time. It follows A…
Vercel Launches v0 API for Headless App Building
Vercel has made the v0 API generally available, enabling developers and AI agents to programmatically generate, iterate on, preview, and deploy appl…
Code that passes every test can still break the next AI agent that touches it
Originally designed to make software predictable for humans, Google Go is now positioning itself as a language tailored for machine The post Code th…
Coding agents ignore open source contribution guidelines, researchers find.
Autonomous coding agents ignore contribution rules in open source communities, finds a new study from researchers at Peking University.  That&#…
Meta Muse Code vs. Fable 5: Meta Muse is cheaper, but at what cost?
Meta released Muse Code on August 5, its first AI coding agent, built on the new Muse Spark 1.2 model. The post Meta Muse Code vs. Fable 5: Meta Mus…
Platform Engineering ROI: What it costs to build your own platform
What it actually costs to build your own internal developer platform over five years, and why most “we’ll just build The post Platform Engineering R…
Podcast: Culture & Methods Trends 2026: The Human Side of AI Engineering
This is the Engineering Culture Trends Report for 2026. Featuring a panel of QCon speakers and InfoQ contributors, they discussed AI adoption maturi…
Forget humans “in” the loop. Harness engineering puts humans “on” the loop.
AI has us quickly forgetting humans as the software delivery loop. Now, forget humans in the loop. For Thoughtworks’ distinguished The post Fo…
Dropbox Integrates MCP and Dash to Close the Gap Between Security Design and Code Review
Dropbox has integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) with its internal knowledge platform, Dash, to surface security design context during AI assiste…
1Password’s new browser integration for Claude changes how AI uses your credentials
As AI agents tackle more tasks, such as managing online accounts, authentication has become a practical engineering problem. For example, The post 1…
Elon Musk: “We will make the entire codebase of X open source, with no exceptions.”
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, wants to make the social network one of the most transparent major technology The post Elon Musk: “We w…
“We did not adapt and move quickly enough”: What IBM’s earnings miss says about enterprise AI spending
IBM’s value has plunged after the company issued a preliminary second-quarter earnings update that fell short of Wall Street’s expectati…