David Crawshaw reflects on the joy and exploration AI agents bring to programming, while acknowledging broader societal fears about AI.
A programmer shares his joy and reduced fear about AI coding agents, quoting David Crawshaw on how they enhance programming.
An analysis of AI coding agents, explaining their simplicity and power through a hands-on experiment building a minimalist agent with Claude Code.
Explores how AI accelerates app development but argues human judgment, taste, and user research remain essential for creating quality, polished products.
Explains why optimizing team workflows and fixing inefficiencies can have a greater long-term impact than just shipping new business features.
Mitchell Hashimoto shares unconventional tips for integrating AI coding agents into a developer's workflow to boost productivity.
Mitchell Hashimoto shares unconventional tips for effectively integrating AI coding agents into a developer's workflow to boost productivity.
A software engineer's measured journey from AI skepticism to practical adoption, outlining six key steps for integrating AI agents into development workflows.
Claude Code introduces agent teams (swarms), enabling parallel AI agents with specialized roles to coordinate on complex coding tasks.
Martin Fowler shares fragmentary thoughts from a tech event, covering AI's impact on understanding code, LLMs as navigation tools, and the future of software libraries.
A daily tech reading list covering AI tools, APIs, agent systems, cloud platforms, and development trends for February 3, 2026.
Explains how stacked pull requests can speed up development by enabling parallel work and avoiding large, hard-to-review PRs.
An interview with Eleventy creator Zach Leatherman on the realities of funding, sustainability, and growth for open-source developer tools.
A developer recounts presenting on the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK at Cloud Tech Tallinn 2026, sharing session highlights and resources.
A bootstrapped founder reflects on his eighth year, sharing financials, challenges of writing a technical book, and lessons learned after selling his previous software product.
OpenAI releases Codex, a Mac app for agentic coding that uses AI agents to assist with the full software development lifecycle.
Argues against the Agile mantra 'quality is everyone's responsibility' and advocates for dedicated software testing roles.
Explores the unpredictable second-order effects of AI evolution, focusing on how AI coding tools may reshape developer choices and business models.
A developer explains the practical benefits of implementing a --dry-run option in a reporting application for safe testing and validation.
Explains the core concepts of AI coding agents (rules, commands, skills, etc.) and provides a unified mental model for understanding them.
