Many of the items today are sobering looks at how we rethink our work. Where do we need to double down on quality or knowledge, even as we surrender the coding portion of software delivery? Find out below.
[blog] nobody should type code by hand anymore. here’s what’s left. This post is absolutely stuffed with insightful points. Take the time to go through it.
[article] 5 things every EM must read/listen/watch. Don’t just have your agent summarize everything for you. Keep reading books, or doing deep digestion of online content. It’s worth it.
[blog] Python vs Go: A Practical Comparison for Developers. I’m not sure how much longer we’ll have clear distinctions between developer populations. But for now, different people gravitate to different work.
[article] 66% of billion-dollar companies leave critical bugs unpatched — the part the AI bug-hunting hype leaves out. If we don’t change ops or our approach during development, we’re just pushing out more software we can’t actually maintain.
[blog] Your widget tree is already a list of options: where Jev fits in a Flutter project. Watch and see where decision models start popping up in applications. Or, when any model is still overkill for the task.
[article] Can AI review agents take humans out of code review? Agents are getting better at finding bugs, but it’s interesting that humans find different bugs than agents do.
[blog] Stop Defaulting to “Medium”: Optimizing Gemini 4 Argon and 3.8 Flash Effort Budgets in Antigravity. Yes, yes. Daniel’s right. We shouldn’t just default to a medium thinking level with our models when “low” will often do just fine.
[blog] The Vanishing Engineering Signal in AI Hackathons. Worrisome, especially because this isn’t just a hackathon thing. It’s happening in real environments everywhere.
[blog] When code is cheap, judgement becomes the job. We’re all doing higher order work, but that requires good judgement and not letting up on our responsibilities.
[article] Team Dynamics Weaken When Employees Turn to AI instead of Colleagues. When we displace interactions with our teammates by going to AI, we cause problems in trust and coordination.
[blog] Temporal Serverless Workers on Cloud Run: Scale workers ahead of demand. Temporal has been around a long time, but is super hot lately. Their orchestration plays well right now. Here’s a new integration with our serverless platform.
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