For decades, “flow state” was the holy grail of developer productivity. Single-threaded focus, minimal interruptions, deep work. AI agents are about to flip that model entirely. The Core Insight Gergely Orosz from The Pragmatic Engineer...
Prompt engineering was 2023. Context engineering is 2026. And if you’re not thinking carefully about what your coding agent sees, you’re leaving performance on the table. The Core Insight Martin Fowler’s team has been dissecting...
What separates a chatbot from an autonomous agent? It’s not magic—it’s architecture. Understanding these building blocks is essential for anyone building or working with AI systems today. The Core Insight Lilian Weng’s foundational paper on...
A year ago, we thought copilots were the future. We were wrong—and the speed of that wrongness should terrify and excite you in equal measure. The Core Insight David Crawshaw’s latest reflection on AI agents...
You’re probably reading this on your second monitor while Cursor or Claude Code runs in the background, autocompleting your thoughts before you finish them. But what if I told you the IDE—that thing you’ve spent...
What if you could clone yourself at work? Not physically, but cognitively—spawning multiple “you”s to tackle different tasks simultaneously while you orchestrate from above. That’s essentially what a growing number of software engineers are doing...
SaaS is dead! AI will replace everything! Not so fast, says Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks. His company just hit $5.4 billion in annual revenue, growing 65% year-over-year. But his perspective on AI’s actual threat...
There’s a classic tech interview question: “What happens when you type a URL into your browser?” You can go deep—HTTP, DNS, TCP, IP, ARP, radio modulation, transistor physics. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: nobody actually...
AI was supposed to make work easier. Instead, it’s making work more. That’s the sobering finding from a new Berkeley Haas study of 200 employees at a U.S. tech company, published in Harvard Business Review....
Your AI coding agent is only as good as the context you give it. And in 2026, getting that context right has become an art form. Martin Fowler’s team just published a comprehensive breakdown of...