The following article originally appeared on Charity Majors’s Substack and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I recently attended a talk where one of the presenters made some pretty…astonishing claims about what they had achieved by the pure, uncut power of vibe coding. Difficult engineering problems solved, backlogs cleared. Rewrites that would have […]

The following article originally appeared on Markus Eisele’s newsletter, The Main Thread, and is being republished here with the author’s permission. There’s a mental model spreading through the developer community right now that goes something like this: Agents are smart enough to figure things out, so heavy upfront specification is bureaucratic overhead you don’t need […]

In the 1980s, Japan led the world in semiconductors, consumer electronics, and computer hardware, the industries everyone assumed would decide the next phase of economic power. Japan won them and still did not overtake the United States in the information revolution that followed. Jeff Ding, a political scientist at George Washington University, opens his book […]

Coauthored with Claude The soap opera starring Anthropic and the US government looms in the background of this month’s Trends. It may be over by the time you read this, or it may be headed for a third act. OpenAI has been drawn in, and a spat between Alibaba and Anthropic may become a side […]

This episode of This Week in AI arrived at a moment when the AI infrastructure most teams take for granted suddenly looked a lot less stable. Andreas Welsch, founder and chief human AI officer at Intelligence Briefing, was joined by Matt Palmer, head of developer experience at Conductor and developer educator on LinkedIn Learning, to […]

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. As companies adopt AI tools, a lot of time is spent on thinking about AI policies from a security, compliance, or even cost-focused angle. But many leaders are neglecting to address how their teams should work with AI in […]

The practice of tokenmaxxing appears to be dying out, even before I had a chance to write about it. Good riddance. Burning tokens to create the appearance of productivity was fated to last only until the accountants learned about it, and the strictest of all accountants is one’s personal checkbook. What got many developers thinking […]

In late 2025, the security community stopped treating indirect prompt injection as a theoretical risk. It had spent two years as a tidy lab demonstration; then production systems started getting hit. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications now ranks prompt injection as the number-one risk, NIST has called indirect injection generative AI’s greatest security […]

Harper Carroll came to AI education through a CS background at Stanford, machine learning engineering at Meta, and a brief stint at a small GPU compute startup in late 2023, where she noticed that almost no one understood how to fine-tune open source models. She started writing and teaching to help drive signups for the […]

The following article originally appeared on Angie Jones’s LinkedIn page and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I’m fascinated by the concept of agent memory. LLMs are stateless by design, meaning they have no memory or awareness of past interactions. Each prompt you send to an LLM is treated as a completely isolated […]

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Coding agents are extraordinarily good now, and getting better fast. The interesting consequence is that the hard part of engineering moved from writing code to deciding whether to trust it, which makes review the most leveraged […]

This week host and Turing Post founder Ksenia Se threaded the latest news into a single argument: AI is moving out of conversation and into the operational loops where real work happens. From SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition in the developer tools market to the G7’s debate about frontier model access to image generation company Midjourney’s […]

I got a really interesting question last week from Mike Loukides, my editor at Radar, after he read the third part of this trilogy on context management. “Another issue I’ve read about,” Mike asked, “is the tendency for a model to ignore the middle of the context. I’ve seen that particularly for the models with […]

In 2025, if you weren’t building with MCP, you weren’t serious about agents. The Model Context Protocol dominated the agent conversation for the better part of the year. Conference talks, roadmaps, hiring plans, all of it revolved around MCP. Then late 2025 into 2026, AI Skills arrived and the backlash was immediate. Engineers declared MCP […]

Over the past year I’ve reviewed enterprise agent architectures at roughly two dozen organizations, including banks, retailers, healthcare systems, and a couple of regulators. The architecture diagrams have been reliably impressive. There are boxes for the MCP gateway, the tool registry, the vector store, the orchestrator, the policy engine, and the observability stack. There are […]