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Latest in software engineering

I Don’t Just Manage Engineers Anymore. I Manage Agents Like a Team

AI coding agents are no longer just productivity tools. They’re becoming active members of engineering teams, opening pull requests, triaging tickets and handling operational tasks. But managing them requires more than better prom…

Nov 9, 20263 min

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Nov04

Blogs

The Hidden Productivity Trap in an Engineer’s Workday

Meetings, constant notifications and fragmented schedules are undermining software engineering productivity, even as AI coding assistants promise faster development. Research highl…

3 min

Nov04

Gas Town Builder: All AI Software Factories Are Bespoke

Gas Town creator Steve Yegge warns that AI-powered software factories are inherently bespoke and require ongoing human supervision. As autonomous agents take on more development ta…

3 min

Nov03

Blogs

AI vs. Engineers: What the Microsoft Buyouts Really Signal

Microsoft’s buyout offers highlight how AI is reshaping engineering careers, rewarding technical judgment, verification and AI-driven development.

3 min

Oct29

Amazon Warns Engineers Against Tokenmaxxing as AI Costs Mount

Amazon has issued new guidelines for its software engineers that discourage excessive use of AI tools simply to boost productivity metrics, signaling a shift in how the company eva…

3 min

Oct29

Blogs

The Return of a Bad Engineering Metric: When AI Token Usage Becomes Performance Theater

Measuring developer productivity by AI token consumption risks higher costs, bloated code and misleading performance metrics.

3 min

Oct13

AI Is Automating Code. The Job Is Engineering

AI is automating coding, but software engineering still requires human judgment. Explore what shifting developer demand means for DevOps, QA and software delivery.

3 min

Oct08

Blogs

Coding Agents Broke Git’s Scaling Math. GitHub Is Rebuilding to Keep Up

GitHub is rebuilding its Git infrastructure as AI coding agents drive billions of commits, promising up to 35x faster writes while exposing new DevOps bottlenecks.

3 min

Oct07

Blogs

DevOps Has Always Been Hard to Define. Does a Standard Help?

The new DevOps Standard deserves a serious reading. Its lasting value will depend on whether it helps organizations apply shared principles as people and agents take on different r…

3 min

Oct06

Blogs

Taste, Discernment, and Judgment Have Become Must-Have Engineering Skills

AI coding agents make code generation cheap, shifting engineering value toward standards, deterministic quality gates, contextual review and human judgment about what should ship.

3 min

Sep18

Blogs

IT Outsourcing Versus In-House Development

The debate isn’t new — but the stakes are. In 2026, the gap between companies that get this decision right and those that don’t is measured in product cycles, burn rate, and compet…

3 min

Sep18

Blogs

Anthropic Adds a Coordinator to Claude Projects for Running AI Work in Parallel

Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Projects coordinates parallel Claude Code sessions, delegates work across branches and brings the results back through familiar pull-request review wo…

3 min

Sep03

From the Horse’s Mouth: Anthropic Says AI Has Changed the SDLC

Anthropic’s AI-native SDLC playbook argues that faster coding is shifting the bottleneck to planning, testing, governance, deployment and operations.

3 min

Aug14

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.

3 min

Aug10

Blogs

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…

3 min

Aug03

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.

3 min

Jul15

Blogs

From AI Hype to AI Assurance: How Engineering Teams Can Safely Ship AI-Enabled Software

AI has moved very quickly from experimentation to production. A few years ago, many organizations were still asking whether AI could improve their products or internal workflows. T…

3 min

Jun30

Survey: More AI Code Running in Production Environments with Caveats

A global survey of 309 software engineering leaders, published today, finds 81% of organizations have to some degree reworked development and release processes to accommodate code…

3 min

Jun23

Newly Appointed CloudBees CEO Charts Agentic AI Engineering Course

The newly appointed CEO of CloudBees, Mo Plassnig, says that as the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) era dawns, the time has come to reinvent software engineering in a way that…

3 min

Jun15

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.7-Code Targets Token Efficiency in Agentic Coding

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.7-Code offers 30% lower token usage and a 21.8% coding benchmark gain — here’s what DevOps teams need to know about the open-source release.

3 min

Jun04

Allstacks Extends Reach of Software Engineering Intelligence Platform to AI Agents

Allstacks this week added a shared workspace capability to its software engineering intelligence platform that makes it simpler for product and software engineering teams to create…

3 min

May15

Blogs

Survey Surfaces Multiple Challenges Measuring AI Coding Productivity

A Harness survey reveals that while 89% of organizations see AI boosting developer productivity, a third of the workday is consumed by untracked AI tasks like fixing bugs, code rev…

3 min

Apr21

Eclipse Foundation Unfurls Managed VSX Registry Service

The Eclipse Foundation launches a paid Open VSX Managed Registry to help industry partners sustainably fund the infrastructure behind VS Code extensions.

3 min

Mar13

Survey: AI Coding Exacerbates Existing DevOps Workflow Issues

A global survey of 700 software engineering practices published this week finds that thanks to increased reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools, well over a third (3…

3 min

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software engineering

69 articles

Latest in software engineering

I Don’t Just Manage Engineers Anymore. I Manage Agents Like a Team

Nov 9, 20263 min

All software engineering Articles

Showing 1–24 of 69

Nov04

Blogs

The Hidden Productivity Trap in an Engineer’s Workday

Meetings, constant notifications and fragmented schedules are undermining software engineering productivity, even as AI coding assistants promise faster development. Research highl…

3 min

Nov04

Gas Town Builder: All AI Software Factories Are Bespoke

Gas Town creator Steve Yegge warns that AI-powered software factories are inherently bespoke and require ongoing human supervision. As autonomous agents take on more development ta…

3 min

Nov03

Blogs

AI vs. Engineers: What the Microsoft Buyouts Really Signal

Microsoft’s buyout offers highlight how AI is reshaping engineering careers, rewarding technical judgment, verification and AI-driven development.

3 min

Oct29

Amazon Warns Engineers Against Tokenmaxxing as AI Costs Mount

Amazon has issued new guidelines for its software engineers that discourage excessive use of AI tools simply to boost productivity metrics, signaling a shift in how the company eva…

3 min

Oct29

Blogs

The Return of a Bad Engineering Metric: When AI Token Usage Becomes Performance Theater

Measuring developer productivity by AI token consumption risks higher costs, bloated code and misleading performance metrics.

3 min

Oct13

AI Is Automating Code. The Job Is Engineering

AI is automating coding, but software engineering still requires human judgment. Explore what shifting developer demand means for DevOps, QA and software delivery.

3 min

Oct08

Blogs

Coding Agents Broke Git’s Scaling Math. GitHub Is Rebuilding to Keep Up

GitHub is rebuilding its Git infrastructure as AI coding agents drive billions of commits, promising up to 35x faster writes while exposing new DevOps bottlenecks.

3 min

Oct07

Blogs

DevOps Has Always Been Hard to Define. Does a Standard Help?

The new DevOps Standard deserves a serious reading. Its lasting value will depend on whether it helps organizations apply shared principles as people and agents take on different r…

3 min

Oct06

Blogs

Taste, Discernment, and Judgment Have Become Must-Have Engineering Skills

AI coding agents make code generation cheap, shifting engineering value toward standards, deterministic quality gates, contextual review and human judgment about what should ship.

3 min

Sep18

Blogs

IT Outsourcing Versus In-House Development

The debate isn’t new — but the stakes are. In 2026, the gap between companies that get this decision right and those that don’t is measured in product cycles, burn rate, and compet…

3 min

Sep18

Blogs

Anthropic Adds a Coordinator to Claude Projects for Running AI Work in Parallel

Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Projects coordinates parallel Claude Code sessions, delegates work across branches and brings the results back through familiar pull-request review wo…

3 min

Sep03

From the Horse’s Mouth: Anthropic Says AI Has Changed the SDLC

Anthropic’s AI-native SDLC playbook argues that faster coding is shifting the bottleneck to planning, testing, governance, deployment and operations.

3 min

Aug14

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.

3 min

Aug10

Blogs

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…

3 min

Aug03

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.

3 min

Jul15

Blogs

From AI Hype to AI Assurance: How Engineering Teams Can Safely Ship AI-Enabled Software

AI has moved very quickly from experimentation to production. A few years ago, many organizations were still asking whether AI could improve their products or internal workflows. T…

3 min

Jun30

Survey: More AI Code Running in Production Environments with Caveats

A global survey of 309 software engineering leaders, published today, finds 81% of organizations have to some degree reworked development and release processes to accommodate code…

3 min

Jun23

Newly Appointed CloudBees CEO Charts Agentic AI Engineering Course

The newly appointed CEO of CloudBees, Mo Plassnig, says that as the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) era dawns, the time has come to reinvent software engineering in a way that…

3 min

Jun15

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.7-Code Targets Token Efficiency in Agentic Coding

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.7-Code offers 30% lower token usage and a 21.8% coding benchmark gain — here’s what DevOps teams need to know about the open-source release.

3 min

Jun04

Allstacks Extends Reach of Software Engineering Intelligence Platform to AI Agents

Allstacks this week added a shared workspace capability to its software engineering intelligence platform that makes it simpler for product and software engineering teams to create…

3 min

May15

Blogs

Survey Surfaces Multiple Challenges Measuring AI Coding Productivity

A Harness survey reveals that while 89% of organizations see AI boosting developer productivity, a third of the workday is consumed by untracked AI tasks like fixing bugs, code rev…

3 min

Apr21

Eclipse Foundation Unfurls Managed VSX Registry Service

The Eclipse Foundation launches a paid Open VSX Managed Registry to help industry partners sustainably fund the infrastructure behind VS Code extensions.

3 min

Mar13

Survey: AI Coding Exacerbates Existing DevOps Workflow Issues

A global survey of 700 software engineering practices published this week finds that thanks to increased reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools, well over a third (3…

3 min