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In 2026, the software engineering community is divided by a simple question: Should AI engineers still read the code generated by their agents? One camp argues that code has become virtually free to produce and discard, so humans should focus on systems and guardrails rather than implementation details. The other warns that blindly trusting AI […]
In 2021, Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, deployed AI agents from a startup called Pactum to negotiate freight lane contracts with its carrier suppliers. The objective was for AI agents to handle negotiations autonomously rather than merely support human procurement staff. Operating entirely autonomously, the system manages the end-to-end agreement process, from reaching
The latest round of restrictions and safeguards for frontier models are overly fussy and limiting. A Claude skill that I created demonstrates what happens when guardrails go astray. My skill helps me to find articles and blog posts that go into O’Reilly Radar’s monthly Trends to Watch. It reads roughly a dozen well-known sites like
The following article originally appeared on the Tech Policy Press site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In Washington, AI is increasingly being treated as something that needs to be controlled. The government believes that AI is, first and foremost, a national security asset, meaning that it must be sequestered to prevent
The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Everybody’s talking about the death of developers. I get it. The developer whose job was to write boilerplate or scaffold CRUD apps is done—a model can do that in seconds, and that developer is not coming back. But the
What’s an Orchestrator—and Why Does Software Need One? Read More »
The following article has been extended and rewritten by Markus Eisele from The Main Thread and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Open a repository after six months of spec-driven agent work and you may find a second system sitting next to the code. Requirements, research notes, high-level designs, low-level designs, implementation plans,
When AI Writes the Code, Specifications Need an Exit Strategy Read More »
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Technical debt lives in your code. Cognitive debt lives in your head. Intent debt lives in the artifacts you may never have written: the goals, constraints, and rationale for why the system is the way it
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 depth of experience from several eras, which is a surprisingly valuable asset these days. He’s also got a book on the way, The Context Engineering Handbook, already in early release
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 architects, but in an era when AI can generate a working service faster than you can describe it, “it depends” is one of the most important phrases in software. It
Why “It Depends” Is the Most Future-Proof Phrase in Software Read More »
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 closed the fundamental gap in usability of LLMs by making them behave in a certain way. In this post, you’ll explore specific techniques you can use to change a model’s
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