The AI SDLC has been a hot topic this week among our customers. Many people want blueprints, but I’m not sure many general purpose ones exist. Work to do.
[blog] How two engineer side projects became the agent taking action inside Dropbox. This looks like thoughtful work, both in how they approached user interactions, and evaluating permission handling.
[blog] How Context Drift Impacts Your AI Agents. This is a case of moving from “what if” to getting hard data. Patrick shows that LLMs swallow context conflicts unless you force them to shine a light there.
[article] The Hidden Productivity Trap in an Engineer’s Workday. Interruptions are a fact of life, but are you giving yourself (or your team) windows to just stay heads down? Hopefully yes.
[site] November 2026 ThoughtWorks Radar. This is probably my favorite tech assessment. Each time they release one, I find a handful of techniques or products I’ve never heard of.
[blog] Powering open infrastructure for autonomous agents. More open source components for the emerging agent platform. We just gave a few key ones to the CNCF. More here.
[blog] Agentic Commerce Protocols — UCP and AP2. Speaking of open, are you tracking these protocols for commerce and payment? This helped me understand them better.
[article] Eight reasons human developers are better than coding agents. Here’s the counterpoint to an article last week about why agents are better than humans. These points are mostly around agency and accountability. Not capability.
[article] Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage. Understandable. But maybe not sustainable if we expect employees to fully capitalize on AI in their work.
[blog] A new Go API for JSON. We take backwards compatibility seriously, but also keep pushing performance forward. Great blog post.
[blog] AI-assisted SDLC in a regulated industry: case study. I’ve seen (personally, close up, from afar) flavors of an AI SDLC. Mostly seems about pacing and what’s agent-led versus human-focused. With a few variations mixed in.
[blog] Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast, cost-effective, and reliable video generation and editing now generally available. Looks good. Cheaper, more consistent results, more natural speech, and faster.
[blog] MCP vs API vs CLI: How Should AI Agents Connect to Your App? This is an extended look at your various options. I think he undersells the CLI and doesn’t factor in token consumption, but the overall assessment is solid.
[blog] When Building Gets Easier, Decisions Get Harder. Sure. The product manager job didn’t just get easier. Now you have even trickier things to work on.
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