I think the "difficulty" of software engineering is essentially constant no matter what abstraction level you move to, because human cognition adapts to new tools until it can fully utilize itself. Tools are only affordances, not a magic wand that makes work disappear. Great so…↗

Bury your head in the ground at your own risk. I aim to not jump on any hype trains, but since Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 + the harnesses it was clear that these things can write code nearly as good as I can in my best language; better in other languages. But we won't see non-devs pus…↗

The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge↗

I talked to Sid & Robert about building Claude Code: how much things have changed, how hard it's been to keep up with model capabilities and also what we miss about software engineering before AI. youtube.com/watch?v=S-sYlF…↗

Astra is really, really cool but I cannot current trust it for my present day engineering. At least until I have adjusted. Some random thoughts including code samples of what I recovered from my traces. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra…↗

Agents made software cheaper but made coding expensive. Today, together with @OpenAI, we’re changing this:↗

How to keep thinking seangoedecke.com/how-to-keep-th…↗

idk what it says that it was fairly easy for AI to replace software engineers but we're not even close on writing and design turns out being "non-technical" was the real flex↗

What's gone wrong with AI & labor — a thought experiment A thought experiment that I think helps explain much of what’s gone wrong with AI and labor: Imagine an alternate universe in which — for whatever reason — no one ever published source code online. The open source movemen…↗

I went to Miami to chat with @thdxr, co-founder of OpenCode. We talked about the future of software engineering, coding agents, and why open source matters more now than ever. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 5:30 Miami vs San Francisco tech scene 15:05 OpenCode origin story, scaling wh…↗

Coding is a solved problem (it was never a really interesting problem though), engineering is not and won’t be for a very long time↗

episode 0 of the next token. listen to rhys, sunil, and and i yap about ai and software engineering↗

We built an internal AI system called Builderbot. It coordinates agents across our entire codebase. Engineers tag it in Slack, and it researches, plans, and ships. The story so far: - 200,000 operations per day. - 1,500 pull requests merged per week. - 15% of all production code…↗

Fragments: updated guide on AI coding, video on harness engineering, how long should a function be, the problems of Software Brain and why AI is unpopular martinfowler.com/fragments/2026…↗

🆕 Building pi in a World of Slop youtube.com/watch?v=RjfbvD… @badlogicgames talks about why today's agents are still Merchants of Learned Complexity, and gives 3 specific ways that humans still add taste, value and judgment to the art of software engineering, and why you shoul…↗

I'm usually not one to write thought pieces without much technical depth. But here we go. Slow the fuck down. mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-…↗

It's ready. I spent the past few months obsessing over the knowledge gaps vibe coders have in trying to learn to build real software. Then built a curriculum to start turning the vibe coders into engineers. It's 35 modules/projects, 250+ interactive lessons. Link in reply.↗

I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.↗