Latest / May 20, 2026
3 posts from engineering leaders published May 20, 2026, by Marc Brooker and Avery Pennarun and Drew DeVault.
Agentic software development hypothesis This is the quality content you come here for, right? Agentic Software Development Hypothesis: Weak form : Any coding task for which a complete specification is available will become trivial. Strong form : Any coding task for which a…
AI needs an open ‘Android’ to balance the vertically locked-in ‘iPhone’ of trillion-dollar AI companies. Open-source AI is closing the gap with closed systems faster than many people expected. That changes the economics, the security model, and the assumptions behind a lot of…
I redesigned my blog! I decided to put some more personality into it this time, after over a decade of the minimalist style. This short post is just an excuse to show up in your feed reader so you can go look at it. Cheers! Also: I’m trying out fedi again. You can find me here:…