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October 2026

  1. Getting Smarter, Not Just Faster
  2. This Week in AI: Agents Rewrite the Rules
  3. Who Governs What an Agent Learns?
  4. Cheap Code, Expensive Confidence
  5. The PHP Incident
  6. Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth From AI?
  7. Are agent harnesses dying? What harness distillation changes.
  8. Are agent harnesses dying? What harness distillation changes.
  9. This Week in AI: AI’s Growing Pains
  10. This Week in AI: AI’s Growing Pains
  11. Soloists, Copy-Pasters, and Tourists
  12. Owners, Not Renters: Raffi Krikorian on Open Source AI
  13. The Agentic Software Factory Hierarchy of Needs
  14. The Latest Anthropic Claude Models Contain AI Text Watermarks: What Does This Mean for You?
  15. The State of AI Security: Threats, Tools, and Skills Gaps
  16. The Second-User Test
  17. Building an AI Analyst, One Football Argument at a Time
  18. AI Changed How We Code. It Hasn’t Changed How We Work Together.
  19. This Week in AI: Expanding the Possibilities
  20. Code Review After Code Gets Cheap
  21. Generative AI in the Real World: Observability for AI with Charity Majors
  22. Agentic Code Quality
  23. Why Does AI Write Like Yoda?
  24. When Architecture Decisions Actually Apply
  25. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Personal Assistant on OpenClaw
  26. Designing Websites for People and AI Agents with WebMCP
  27. This Week in AI: More Capability, More Responsibility
  28. Intent, Not Identity
  29. The Preservation Gap in the AI Stack: Why Capability Is Advancing Faster Than Reconstructability
  30. Build Your Own Post-training Pipeline
  31. Radar Trends to Watch: October 2026
  32. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build Your First Agent with MCP
  33. How to Build Reliable AI Agent Systems for Production
  34. This Week in AI: Agents Are Outrunning the Systems Around Them
  35. Coding Agents Love Decision Records
  36. The Future of Software May Be Conversational Rather Than Autonomous

September 2026

  1. The Agentic Data Science Playbook
  2. Evaluating AI-Generated Frontend Code: What Should We Actually Test?
  3. Superpowers for Humans
  4. Not About Navier-Stokes
  5. A Data Center Is a Dependency Graph Before It Is a Building
  6. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Give Your Agent Its Own Computer
  7. From Raw Data to Graph-Native AI
  8. Human Judgment Doesn’t Leave the Software Factory, It Relocates
  9. This Week in AI: AI’s Safety Problem
  10. When Software Subscriptions Become Public Policy
  11. Will TypeSafe’s Jev Change How We Build AI Applications?
  12. MCP Is Not Just Another API Standard
  13. The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing
  14. AI Sovereignty: Bargaining with Big Tech and the Promise of Full Stack Open Source AI
  15. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Sports Concierge Agent with Chester Ismay
  16. The Post-training Process OpenAI Used for ChatGPT
  17. How to Get from AI-Assisted to AI Native
  18. Software Factories, Light and Dark
  19. This Week in AI: Capability, Capital, and Consequences
  20. Navigating the Modern Data Lexicon: A Working Vocabulary for the Semantic Era
  21. Architecting for the Knowledge You Can’t Capture
  22. What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
  23. Beyond Navier–Stokes: Who Controls Scientific Discovery?
  24. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Shared Knowledge Base for All Your Agents with Sajal Sharma
  25. Enterprise Analytics Beyond Dashboards: Intelligent Data Orchestration with LLMs
  26. The Interfaces Are Arriving
  27. Operating Mode as Runtime State: A Contract for Enterprise
  28. When Content Is Free, Trust Is the Product
  29. Generative AI in the Real World: Local Voice AI with Pete Warden
  30. Own the Outer Loop
  31. LLMs Reward Expertise
  32. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Supply Chain for Agent Context with Maxim Salnikov
  33. Experience Mapping Matters More the Faster You Move
  34. This Week in AI: The Frontier Is Getting Bigger
  35. Inside a Software Factory
  36. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Content Engine with Max Johnson
  37. Hey AI, Can You Just Give Me a Hat Tip Please?
  38. What a User Story Actually Costs in a Dark Code Factory
  39. Radar Trends to Watch: September 2026

August 2026

  1. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Building a Financial News Agent with Jayeeta Putatunda
  2. Architectural Guardrails for AI-Generated Code
  3. This Week in AI: The Guardrails Are Getting Tested
  4. Tokens Aren’t Dollars
  5. Writing with AI
  6. The Identity Crisis No One Planned For: Governing Nonhuman Agents at Enterprise Scale
  7. Effective Patterns for Advanced MCP Usage
  8. When Smaller Models Win
  9. The Design System as the Control Plane for AI-Generated UI
  10. Shadow Agents, Standing Privileges, and the Governance Gap Between Deployment and Discovery
  11. Data Intelligence: Building Your Competitive Advantage in the Era of AI
  12. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Never Type Again with Craig Hewitt
  13. The Agent-Era Career
  14. This Week in AI: The Web Belongs to Agents Now
  15. Principal Drift in Practice
  16. When Your Buyer Is an AI Agent
  17. When Guardrails Go Wrong
  18. Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path?
  19. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: From Prompting to Loop Engineering with Ofer Mendelevitch
  20. What’s an Orchestrator—and Why Does Software Need One?
  21. When AI Writes the Code, Specifications Need an Exit Strategy
  22. This Week in AI: When agents outnumber people
  23. The Intent Debt
  24. Prompt Debt and “Fighting the Weights”
  25. Generative AI in the Real World: AI for Real Estate with Ben Miller
  26. Why “It Depends” Is the Most Future-Proof Phrase in Software
  27. The Two Pillars of Post-training: Reinforcement Learning and Supervised Fine-Tuning
  28. A Home for Personal Context
  29. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a YouTube Analytics Agent with Vicki Reyzelman
  30. The Base Is Under Attack
  31. Why Open Source Matters for AI
  32. This Week in AI: Who Controls AI?
  33. AI on the Pi: Build Your Own Local Voice Agent
  34. Your AI Agent Isn’t a Static Artifact. It’s Growing Up.
  35. Building Organizational Intelligence
  36. Introduction to Post-training
  37. Radar Trends to Watch: August 2026
  38. We Keep Renaming AI Coding. Here’s What I’d Call It.

July 2026

  1. AI as an Enterprise Operating System
  2. This Week in AI: Agents, Gatekeepers, and World Models
  3. The Problem Is Prompt Debt
  4. What the Hell Is a Loop, Anyway?
  5. Teaching Coding When AI Can Write the Code
  6. AI Demands More Engineering Discipline, Not Less
  7. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Hermes Social Media Agent with Craig Hewitt
  8. Stranded in the Slow Zone
  9. The Economics of Agentic AI: Engineering for Imperfection
  10. This Week in AI: The Price of Intelligence
  11. You Probably Won’t Read This Article…and That’s OK
  12. The Meter Was Always Running
  13. Stop Overengineering Your Agent Harness
  14. Managers Are Not Overhead: They Are Infrastructure
  15. My AI Kept Pushing Me to Ship, So I Asked It Why
  16. Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Workflow Agent with John Berryman
  17. The Tokens You Can’t Wait For
  18. This Week in AI: A First for Agentic Ransomware
  19. The Right Amount of Spec for Agentic Development
  20. Generative AI in the Real World: Agentic Coding with Chelsea Troy
  21. Coding Was Never a Bottleneck
  22. Don’t Neglect the Operational Groundwork
  23. The New Software Lifecycle
  24. The Open Source Agent Toolkit in 2026
  25. The Frontend Verification Gap in AI-Assisted Development
  26. This Week in AI: Chips, Checks, and Changing Jobs
  27. Prompt Injection to Data Exfil in 3 Hops
  28. AI Enthusiasts Are in a Race Against Time, AI Skeptics Are in a Race Against Entropy
  29. Why AI Coding Agents Still Need Clear Specs
  30. Ordinary Engineers, Not Heroic Inventors
  31. Radar Trends to Watch: July 2026
  32. This Week in AI: Multivendor Strategy
  33. Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI

June 2026

  1. The End of Tokenmaxxing
  2. Beyond Prompt Injection
  3. What You Bring to AI Determines the Result
  4. Agent Memory

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