Your AI Coding Budget Is Becoming a Variable Cloud Bill
AI coding assistants are becoming a variable, usage-based engineering cost, forcing platform and DevOps teams to apply FinOps practices to models, credits, utilization and multi-vendor spend.
Why “Tokenmaxxing” Was Always the Wrong Way for Developers to Measure AI Productivity
The term “tokenmaxxing” left the developer lexicon just as quickly as it arrived, and like most viral technology concepts, it means different things depending on who’s using it. In practice, the term is being applied in two ways: maximizing total token consumption as a proxy for AI adoption and effort, or optimizing output per token […]
Claude Code’s Temporary Usage Boost Expires Tonight. Here’s What Actually Changes
Anthropic’s temporary 50% increase to Claude Code weekly usage limits expires August 19, reducing available capacity for developers and DevOps teams without lowering subscription prices.
Developer Resistance to AI Isn’t Fear – It is Identity
Developer resistance to AI is less about job loss than a deeper shift from hands-on coding to supervising, validating and orchestrating AI-generated work.
Anthropic Makes Claude Code’s Auto Mode the Default, Betting Automation Beats Manual Review
Anthropic is making Claude Code’s auto mode the default for Pro, Max and Team users, replacing constant permission prompts with classifier-based guardrails designed to catch risky actions without slowing developers down.
AI is Coding Us Into a Corner
AI-powered patching and coding is putting us on a track towards a deepening dependency on future frontier models. The modern tools we use today to fix yesterday’s coding problems are quietly creating tomorrow’s quagmire. Companies are using AI to pay down 20 years of tech debt, but in doing so we’re generating a future problem […]
GitHub Brings Stacked Pull Requests Out of the Shadows
GitHub introduces native stacked pull requests, helping development teams break large changes into smaller, dependency-ordered PRs that are faster and easier to review.
The Innovation Puzzle 2.0: Connecting Vision and Value
The tech landscape constantly evolves, making it tempting to chase every new trend. Ironically, in today’s business world, the word “innovation” has become almost synonymous with technology adoption. Yet after years of leading digital transformations, I’ve learned that sustainable innovation isn’t about having the latest technology—it’s about solving business problems and delivering measurable impact. In […]
AI Moved the Bottleneck From Writing Code to Understanding and Trusting It
AI coding boosts velocity, but without stronger review, governance and codebase visibility, teams risk higher costs, security gaps and production failures. TL;DR
Five Technology Shifts In: Why the Hype Curve Lies in Both Directions
I’ve lived through five major technology shifts: mainframe to Windows in the early ‘90s, internet computing in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, Agile in the mid-2000s, cloud through the 2010s, and now AI. You learn things by surviving that many. You learn that vendors oversell. That leadership wants results yesterday. That the breathless predictions […]
Flowtopia Live 2026: Engineering the Frictionfree Enterprise
If your goals are accelerating flow and maximizing value in your organization, consider grabbing yourself a ticket to this year’s Flowtopia Live on Wednesday, June 24th. Flowtopia is a community of value stream practitioners, and this is our annual online jamboree where we gather to share, learn, and celebrate all things flow-related. Over 12 hours, […]
Documentation is Dead. Long Live Documentation.
Why traditional documentation fails and how capturing knowledge during work creates a living, scalable system of record.
Lightrun: IT is in the Dark Over Coding Assistant Runtime Visibility
Software runs, but sometimes it doesn’t… and that’s often down to a lack of runtime visibility in relation to platform engineering teams being able to trust coding assistants and AI-powered site reliability engineering (SRE) services.
AI Won’t Replace Developers—But it is Changing How They Work
AI is reshaping software development by accelerating coding, testing and reviews while reinforcing the need for human judgment and oversight.
When Code Becomes Cheap, Engineering Becomes Governance
AI agents can now generate in minutes what once took teams weeks, but the real shift is not faster coding. It is the collapse of code scarcity. As software production becomes industrialized, the job of engineers is moving from writing lines to governing systems, managing risk and deciding what should exist in the first place.
Gemini Code Assist Gets Agent Auto-Approve, Inline Diffs, and Custom Commands to Speed Up the Core Coding Loop
Google’s latest Gemini Code Assist updates focus on workflow, not hype: Agent Mode with Auto Approve, inline diffs, a Context Drawer, custom commands, Finish Changes, and Outlines streamline how developers review, trust, and integrate AI-generated code in VS Code and IntelliJ.
Anthropic Code Review Dispatches Agent Teams to Catch the Bugs That Skim Reads Miss
Anthropic Code Review dispatches agent teams to find bugs in PRs. Multi-agent analysis, severity ranking, and inline fixes for Teams and Enterprise.
Postman Adds Ability to Invoke API Code From Within Git Workflows
Discover how Postman’s new feature allows software engineering teams to manage API specifications, collections, and environments directly from Git repositories, simplifying workflows for AI agents in the development process.
Survey: Java Developers Wrestling With Massive Amounts of Technical Debt
A global survey of 2,039 Java developers published today finds 63% reporting that dead and unused code adversely affects their team’s productivity, with 22% describing the impact of that technical debt as being severe. Conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Azul, a provider of a distribution of OpenJDK, the survey also finds that more […]
Open-Source Coding Agents Just Got Accessible
Ai2’s open-source SERA coding agents slash the cost of training repository-aware AI, enabling teams to customize high-performance coding agents on private codebases for as little as $400.
Best of 2025: How AI Agents are Reshaping the Developer Experience
AI agents are helping to shift developers’ focus from long hours of manual coding to high-value problem-solving, architecture and decision-making processes.
Developer Productivity in the Vibe Coding Era: Is AI Really Moving the Needle?
Let me be clear. I do not like the term “vibe coding.” The label is sloppy and the concept it pushes is even sloppier. It lumps together two very different practices and turns a serious profession into a trend. On one side, experienced developers use AI to speed up real work. They ask pointed questions, […]
The Coding Assistant Bottleneck: Applying the 3-Ways
AI coding assistants are the talk of the town, and for good reason. Tools that can turn a comment into a function or autocomplete entire classes are genuinely changing the developer experience. We’re writing more code, faster than ever before. It feels like a massive productivity win. But is it? While we’ve supercharged the early […]