Somewhere in a Singapore data center, a bank is paying for eight H100s that spend most of the night waiting. The cluster was bought for good reasons (discomfort with customer documents leaving the building, a strategy team’s aversion to lock-in), so the bank secured its own sovereign compute. Now the finance team is asking why […]

I keep seeing the same idea in conversations about agents: Detailed specs are old-world overhead now. Give the model a rough goal, let it explore, fix what comes back, move on. It sounds efficient but it also hides the cost. A simple prompt looks cheap and tempting because it gets implementation started right away. Then […]

AI has taken software development by storm. Between the two of us, we build products for software engineers and consumer products for millions of everyday users, so we have skin in the game. We want the AI productivity story to be true. More output, tighter timelines, happier and more productive engineers. Who wouldn’t? But when we […]

Autonomous agents are moving faster than the field’s ability to govern them, and catching up requires more than better prompts or bigger sandboxes. At O’Reilly’s recent AI Superstream focused on OpenClaw and the broader ecosystem of locally run and self-hosted AI agents, five speakers, each working at a different layer of the stack, explored patterns […]

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I cowrote a Google whitepaper about how AI is changing the software lifecycle. I’m not going to summarize the whole thing. Instead, here are the handful of ideas in it I think actually matter, plus six figures […]

The following article originally appeared on Paolo Perrone’s Substack, The AI Engineer, and is being republished here with the author’s permission. You spent three weeks shipping an agent. It worked in the demo. Then production hit, and you realized the framework you picked has no checkpointing, the memory layer is a flat vector dump with […]

AI-assisted development has made frontend work feel much faster. A developer can ask for a form, a dashboard card, a table, a modal, or a responsive layout and get a decent first version almost immediately. The code may compile. The page may render. At first glance, the UI may look done. But frontend developers know […]

This week data and AI evangelist Christina Stathopoulos returned for a solo news briefing. Instead of exploring one or two topics in depth, Christina sorted the week’s headlines into a handful of threads: advances in physical hardware to keep up with AI demand, the widening reach of government oversight into frontier model companies, and a […]

The incident that should worry you makes no destructive call. Nothing is deleted, nothing crashes, no alert fires. An employee asks an agent to summarise a customer ticket; the agent does exactly that, the user gets a useful answer, and somewhere, in the same second, a customer record leaves the cluster over an ordinary HTTPS […]

The following article originally appeared on Charity Majors’s Substack and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I recently attended a talk where one of the presenters made some pretty…astonishing claims about what they had achieved by the pure, uncut power of vibe coding. Difficult engineering problems solved, backlogs cleared. Rewrites that would have […]

The following article originally appeared on Markus Eisele’s newsletter, The Main Thread, and is being republished here with the author’s permission. There’s a mental model spreading through the developer community right now that goes something like this: Agents are smart enough to figure things out, so heavy upfront specification is bureaucratic overhead you don’t need […]

In the 1980s, Japan led the world in semiconductors, consumer electronics, and computer hardware, the industries everyone assumed would decide the next phase of economic power. Japan won them and still did not overtake the United States in the information revolution that followed. Jeff Ding, a political scientist at George Washington University, opens his book […]

This episode of This Week in AI arrived at a moment when the AI infrastructure most teams take for granted suddenly looked a lot less stable. Andreas Welsch, founder and chief human AI officer at Intelligence Briefing, was joined by Matt Palmer, head of developer experience at Conductor and developer educator on LinkedIn Learning, to […]

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. As companies adopt AI tools, a lot of time is spent on thinking about AI policies from a security, compliance, or even cost-focused angle. But many leaders are neglecting to address how their teams should work with AI in […]

The practice of tokenmaxxing appears to be dying out, even before I had a chance to write about it. Good riddance. Burning tokens to create the appearance of productivity was fated to last only until the accountants learned about it, and the strictest of all accountants is one’s personal checkbook. What got many developers thinking […]

In late 2025, the security community stopped treating indirect prompt injection as a theoretical risk. It had spent two years as a tidy lab demonstration; then production systems started getting hit. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications now ranks prompt injection as the number-one risk, NIST has called indirect injection generative AI’s greatest security […]