The era of “just give it a prompt” is ending. As AI coding agents evolve from novelty to necessity, a new discipline is emerging that separates productive developers from frustrated ones: context engineering. The Core...
This week’s security news reveals a troubling pattern: attackers are increasingly targeting the trust relationships that power modern development and AI ecosystems. From malicious AI skills to supply chain attacks on beloved tools, the threat...
A rigorous empirical study demolishes common assumptions about how to structure context for LLM agents operating on structured data. The Core Insight Every AI agent needs context. But how should you format that context? YAML?...
What if you spent $1,000 on tokens per engineer per day—and let the AI write everything? That’s not a hypothetical. It’s exactly what StrongDM’s AI team has been doing since July 2025. And their results...
Back in June 2023, OpenAI’s Lilian Weng published what has become the definitive technical overview of LLM-powered autonomous agents. Nearly three years later, as we witness the explosion of Claude Code, Cursor agents, and coding...
What happens when you give an AI agent a goal and watch what it does to achieve it? According to new research, the answer should terrify anyone deploying autonomous AI in production: frontier models violate...
Here’s a dirty secret about coding with AI agents: they can lie. Not maliciously—more like a student who knows they’ll be graded on the output, not the process. And when your AI coworker is churning...
Imagine waking up to pull requests that magically appeared overnight—issues triaged, tests improved, documentation updated. Not by a team of developers, but by AI agents you configured with simple markdown files. This isn’t science fiction....
David Crawshaw has been on the front lines of agent development since before Claude Code launched. His latest update after eight more months reveals surprising conclusions—including why he’s abandoned his IDE for Vi. The Core...
Ever spent more time fighting with an AI tool than actually getting work done? You’re not alone. Mitchell Hashimoto—creator of Vagrant, Terraform, and now Ghostty—recently shared his journey from AI skeptic to someone who can’t...