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75 postsBuilding Reliable Software With Untrustworthy AI Agents
A practical framework for reliable AI-agent coding: context window management, verification layers, CLAUDE.md briefs, and reusable skills.
Agent-Native Software Engineering: Why Specs Alone Aren't Enough
Coding agents fail less at writing code than at holding architectural context. A look at spec-driven development's limits and what comes next.
AI, Rockets, and Why Engineering Judgment Still Costs the Same
AI cheapens code generation, not engineering judgment. A rocket-engineering analogy — Apollo vs. the Soviet N1 — reframes how teams should review AI code.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comEngineering Management After the Cost of Code Collapsed
AI has slashed the cost of writing code, but engineering management practices split: some core assumptions broke, others didn't. Here's how to tell which.
Study: 'AI-DDoS' cuts first-time contributor merge rates 18.18% in OSS
Study across 294 repos and 2M+ PRs finds AI-generated contributions ('AI-DDoS') cut first-time contributor merge rates by 18.18% in open source.
Why Coding Agents Improve More From Harness Design Than Models
LangChain pushed a coding agent to Terminal-Bench's top 5 without changing the model — the gains came entirely from harness design.
Why Prompt Debt Quietly Breaks AI Systems
Natural-language prompts speed up AI prototypes but create fragile, model-locked systems. Learn why prompt debt happens and how evals fix it.
Google's Adam Bender on the Future of Software Engineering
Google's Adam Bender explains why AI speeds up programming but not software engineering, and what teams must fix first.
Inside the New Agent Swarm: Coordination at 1,000 Commits/Sec
A deep dive into how a new AI agent swarm architecture uses planner-worker hierarchies and a custom VCS to coordinate work at 1,000 commits per second.
The Real Divide in AI Verification: Code vs. Judgment
An AI agent's false 'I will remember' claim exposed why code-based gates, not judgment calls, are needed to verify agentic AI workflows.