On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
My beloved American Library Association broke my heart this month. (This was not the first time.) The details are immaterial. I have seen it happen to...
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It’s been a busy week, hasn’t it. Fascism is on the rise and AI too. But it’s not all bad news… (touches earpiece) I’m receiving new information. Aaaanyway. This week we’re looking at mad and bad. We’re looking at how magic strings and parameter injection can be bad, how mad AI coding is and how bad people make me mad. Telnet? In 2026? First of all, we’re reminded that running old services can be rather dangerous.
Allen Pike writes about making nice software, building teams, and other tricky things.
After reading Maggie Appleton’s excellently illustrated blog post, I began building a Gas Town-inspired multi-agent system that could autonomously complete P...
I was coding with Claude the other day, and like many engineers, I experienced the magical surge of productivity, and awe, watching it produce options for so...
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AI coding tools write fast, plausible, and often quietly wrong code — and they won't tell you which. A look at SlopCodeBench, a god class I didn't read, the Claude Code source leak, and what it actually means to keep a human in the loop.
How AI impacts the day-to-day job, productivity, improving delivery, and open performance dashboards.