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What is agentic engineering?

Agentic Engineering Patterns > I use the term agentic engineering to describe the practice of developing software with the assistance of coding agents. What are coding agents? They're agents that can both write and execute code. Popular examples include Claude Code, O...

Daring Fireball
15 Mar 17:54 • John Gruber

Finalist 3.6

finalist.works/finalist-36/

My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indie developer Slaven Radic. It’s a planner — a digital take on traditional paper planners — that (with permission) pulls...

Daring Fireball
15 Mar 17:54 • John Gruber

Blaming AI for Layoffs: ‘It Plays Better’

resume.org/the-great-turnover-9-in-10-companies-plan-to-hire-in-2026-yet-6-in-10-will-have-layoffs-2/

Resume.org, summarizing their survey of 1,000 U.S. hiring managers:

59% admit they emphasize AI when explaining hiring freezes or layoffs because it plays better with stakeholders than citing financial constraints.

Reminds me of the “Not Me” ghost in Bil Keane’s The Family Circus comic strip.

Link: resume.org/the-great-turnover-9-in-10-companies-plan-to…

Daring Fireball
15 Mar 16:18 • John Gruber

Horace Dediu on Apple Sitting Out the AI Spending Race

asymco.com/2026/03/10/the-most-brilliant-move-in-corporate-history/

Horace Dediu, under the headline “The Most Brilliant Move in Corporate History?”: Apple used to be the biggest capex spender, mainly because it paid for most of the property plant and equipment in the factories that made its phones and computers. [...] But that all chan...

Daring Fireball
15 Mar 15:48 • John Gruber

Reuters: ‘Meta Planning Sweeping Layoffs as AI Costs Mount’

reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-ai-costs-mount-2026-03-14/

Katie Paul, Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman, reporting for Reuters: Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastruct...

Daring Fireball
15 Mar 15:48 • John Gruber

‘This Is Not the Computer for You’

samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/?ref=birchtree.me

Sam Henri Gold: Nobody starts in the right place. You don’t begin with the correct tool and work sensibly within its constraints until you organically graduate to a more capable one. That is not how obsession works. Obsession works by taking whatever is available and pre...

Daring Fireball
15 Mar 00:39 • John Gruber

Matt Mullenweg Documents a Dastardly Clever Apple Account Phishing Scam

ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/

Matt Mullenweg: One evening last month, my Apple Watch, iPhone, and Mac all lit up with a message prompting me to reset my password. This came out of nowhere; I hadn’t done anything to elicit it. I even had Lockdown Mode running on all my devices. It didn’t matter. Someo...

Daring Fireball
14 Mar 22:36 • John Gruber

iFixit’s MacBook Neo Teardown

ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years

iFixit: Is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever also one of its most repairable? For years, opening a MacBook has usually meant fighting your way through glue and buried parts. But the Neo stands out, with increasingly good day-one manuals, less-painful keyboard repairs,...

Dan’s Polaroids
14 Mar 21:03

14.03.2026

Black and white image from a car to the outside. Cars in the
rain outside and building in the rear view mirror. — "...hier schon wieder tief tanja mit sieben grad graupelschauer..."

Dan’s Polaroids
14 Mar 21:03

13.03.2026

A black and white image of a cheeseburger on a plate. — It was Burger Friday.

Marques Brownlee
14 Mar 20:55

Reviewing Everything on my Desk! (2026)

Everything I've had on my desk for years in 1 video. Budget version of the same setup: https://youtu.be/fMp3TPlEBQg?si=jF9Nd5sxVvsoEPeI MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.com Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5 Links (Affiliate): XDesk Air Pro: https://www.x...

Daring Fireball
14 Mar 20:24 • John Gruber

PC Makers Are Not Ready for the MacBook Neo

theverge.com/report/894090/macbook-neo-pc-windows-laptop-competition-asus-footinmouth

Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge: Somehow, the PC makers still don’t see it coming. Here’s how [Asus CFO Nick] Wu described the MacBook Neo, specifically its 8GB of RAM limitation: “I think when Apple positioned the product, it’s probably focused more on content consu...

Simon Willison's Weblog
14 Mar 18:45

Quoting Jannis Leidel

GitHub’s slopocalypse – the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open membership and shared push access untenable.

Jazzband was designed for a world where the worst case was someone accidentally merging the wrong PR. In a world where only 1 in 10 AI-generated PRs meets project standards, where curl had to shut down its bug bounty because confirmation rates dropped below 5%, and where GitHub’s own response was a kill switch to disable pull requests entirely – an organization that gives push access to everyone who joins simply can’t operate safely anymore.

— Jannis Leidel, Sunsetting Jazzband

Tags: ai-ethics, open-source, python, ai, github

Simon Willison's Weblog
14 Mar 18:45

My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit

I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about agentic engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. The video is available on YouTube. Here are my highlights from the conversation. Stages of AI a...

Daring Fireball
14 Mar 17:30 • John Gruber

Ars Technica Fires Reporter Benj Edwards After He Published Story With AI-Fabricated Quotes

futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes

Maggie Harrison Dupré, writing for Futurism: Earlier this month, Ars retracted the story after it was found to include fake quotes attributed to a real person. The article — a write-up of a viral incident in which an AI agent seemingly published a hit piece about a human...

Daring Fireball
14 Mar 16:30 • John Gruber

Lil Finder Guy

basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/lil-finder-guy

Basic Apple Guy:

Where I and the rest of the internet take this from here remains to be seen. All I know is that Apple should definitely keep this Lil Finder around.

But no, I do not think this is the last we’ve seen of Lil Finder Guy…

Apple’s MacBook Neo ad campaign on TikTok — and seemingly exclusive to TikTok — is the most fun they’ve had with a campaign in ages. I love it.

Link: basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/lil-finder-guy

Simone Giertz
14 Mar 16:00

We have the solution to all your problems! Or actually, just this one specifically.

Visit the link in our bio to back the Laundry Chair on Kickstarter.

kottke.org
14 Mar 14:03 • Jason Kottke

KDO: 28 Years Later…

It’s getting a little ridiculous, isn’t it? 28 years of kottke.org, as of today. Older than Google. Older than The Matrix. Older than Christopher Nolan’s feature film career. Older than Elle Fanning. Older than Kurt Cobain when he died. 47,300 posts since March 14, 1998. I...

Daring Fireball
14 Mar 00:09 • John Gruber

Tim Cook: ‘50 Years of Thinking Different’

apple.com/50-years-of-thinking-different/

Tim Cook: At Apple, we’re more focused on building tomorrow than remembering yesterday. But we couldn’t let this milestone pass without thanking the millions of people who make Apple what it is today — our incredible teams around the world, our developer community, and e...

kottke.org
13 Mar 21:57 • Jason Kottke

For the first time in awhile, copies of two lost...

For the first time in awhile, copies of two lost episodes of classic Doctor Who have been discovered. Both are from the William Hartnell era and feature the Daleks.