Today
- It’s been a month since I launched whenwords, and since then there’s been a flurry of experiments with spec driven development (SDD): using coding agents to implement software using only a detailed text spec and a collection of conformance tests. Github Could Use a ‘Docs Review’...
- My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I've necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of workflow and life-altering discovery.
- Workspaces give your agents a place to actually do work, letting them read and write files, execute commands, search content, and follow reusable skills from co......
- This is a cross post of an article I wrote for Ada, the National College for Digital Skills All the available evidence suggests that GenAI-assisted coding is most powerful in the hands of highly experienced software engineers, while having neutral or even negative effects for...
- Feb 5, 2026 Let's compile Quake like it's 1997! The first batches of Quake executables, quake.exe and vquake.exe were programmed on HP 712-60 running NeXT and cross-compiled with DJGPP running on a DEC Alpha server 2100A. In June of 1996, having shipped their title but concerned...
- Claude Code now supports agent teams - coordinated swarms of AI agents that research, debug, and build in parallel. What was feature-flagged is now real. Here's what it means and how to use it....
- People tend to get attached to a specific concept of what they are trying to accomplish rather than the idea it represents...
Yesterday
- The number of options we have to configure and enrich a coding agent’s context has exploded over the past few months. Claude Code is leading the charge with innovations in this space, but other coding assistants are quickly following suit. Powerful context engineering is...
- When you’re running a project in a tech company, understanding that your main job is to ship the project goes a surprisingly long way. So many engineers spend their time on peripheral questions (like the choice of technology X or Y) when core questions about shipping the product...
- Agentic Engineering is a disciplined approach to AI-assisted software development that emphasizes human oversight and engineering rigor, distinguishing it from the more casual 'vibe coding' style....
This week
- 04 Feb, 2026 Hi friends, In January, Scour scoured 805,241 posts from 16,555 feeds (939 were newly added). I also rolled out a lot of new features that I'm excited to tell you about. Maybe because of some of these, I found more posts than usual that I thought were especially...
- I’ve been exploring Go for building small, fast and self-contained binary applications recently. I’m enjoying how there’s generally one obvious way to do things and the resulting code is boring …
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. February 4, 2026 Stewart Brand's pace layers, early sketch Deepfates on X: As you climb the pace layers, your sources of information get...
- February 4, 2026 Sheesh look at this gorgeous graph from the great Daniel J. Bernstein: Daniel J. Bernstein's graph comparing sorting algorithms Somewhere, Julie Mehretu is raising a single eyebrow; perhaps jotting a note. P.S. Bernstein is one of those amazing figures in...
- I’ve spent a couple of days at a Thoughtworks-organized event in Deer Valley Utah. It was my favorite kind of event, a really great set of attendees in an Open Space format. These kinds of events are full of ideas, which I do want to share, but I can’t truthfully form them into...
- There’s a lot that’s not going well; politics, tech bubbles, the economy, and so on. I spend most of my day reading angry tweets and blog posts. There’s a lot to be upset about, so that’s understandable. But in the interest of fostering better discourse, I’d like to offer a...
- Date and time management libraries in many programming languages are famously bad. Python's datetime module comes to mind as one of the best (worst?) examples, and so does JavaScript's Date class. It feels like these libraries could not have been made worse on purpose, or so I...
- 2/4/2026 I like Rust. It's versatile enough that it can be used for application and systems programming. It has the best tooling of any language I've seen. It has a fairly pleasant type system. And I think most importantly it does a great job in bringing higher level language...
- You’ve probably heard this famous quote from Steve Jobs about saying ‘no’: People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully....
- When you’re building an agentic application, there are often multiple ways to structure it. Agents and workflows can be composed in different ways, and those ch......
- 8 years building billing systems and I’m still wrong about just how hard it actually is. Not “getting better at it hard”, but like really genuinely discovering new layers of complexity I never saw coming. — Back when we started Paid at the end of 2024, I remember people telling...
- NDC London was the first really big conference I ever went to - as a paying attendee, way back in 2014 (or was it 2013?), when I was trying to figure out ASP.NET MVC and jQuery and how to get all my team’s code out of Subversion and into this new Git thing everybody was talking...
- Learn how to use the new Gemini Deep Research agent via the Interactions API to perform complex research tasks, generate images based on the findings, and translate the results....
- The Agent Client Protocol (ACP) is an open standard abstracts the events and outputs of AI agents and provides a common interface for editors to interact with them. Similar to MCP but for agent to client (UI) communication....
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