The Matrix protocol is in active discussions with 35 countries about communications infrastructure. The United Nations uses it. The International Criminal Court is adopting it. Germany’s armed forces are deploying it. This isn’t a niche...
Picture this: you’ve just installed Cursor, the hottest AI coding assistant everyone’s raving about. You’re ready to become a 10x developer overnight. But what if the very tool promising to boost your productivity is actually...
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...
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...
The IDE is dead. Long live Vi. That’s not hyperbole—it’s the lived experience of David Crawshaw, who just shared his updated perspective on programming with AI agents after eight months of intensive use. And his...
“Everything is context.” That one phrase nails what’s happening in AI-assisted development right now. The models are smart enough. The real bottleneck? Getting them to understand what you actually want. This is context engineering. And...
A quiet revolution is happening in how developers work. Instead of focusing on one task at a time—the traditional “flow state” approach—engineers are increasingly kicking off multiple AI agents simultaneously, managing several workstreams in parallel....
In 2021, the IDE had won. Copilot made auto-complete so powerful that fighting with environment integration seemed worth it. Four years later, David Crawshaw—founder at Tailscale and Sketch—is back on Vi. Vi is turning 50...
There’s a peculiar irony in the AI coding discourse: everyone’s talking about it, but few are sharing the messy, iterative path to actually making it work. Mitchell Hashimoto—the creator of Vagrant, Terraform, and Ghostty—just dropped...