Seven Teams, One Vision TL;DR: Seven teams built an AI-driven audio product in three days. AI agents didnโt replace human collaboration โ they amplified individual speed, shifting the bottleneck to coโฆ
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When AI Joins the Team: Observations from a 3-Day Hack Event
What Reasoning Actually Means (and Why It Matters for Your Architecture)
It Started with a Saturday Morning Experiment I recently ran a simple test. I asked a small language model the same questions three times, with zero, one, and three rounds of self-reflection, and publโฆ
Code Quality Is the New Infrastructure
Ten talks. Ten practitioners from different companies โ Anthropic, Google, HashiCorp, Thoughtworks, Answer.AI, Factory, and independent creators. None of them coordinated. All arrived at the same concโฆ
Is the AI Subsidy Era Ending? And Why That Might Be a Good Thing
I was listening to a recent episode of The AI Daily Brief โ โThe AI Subsidy Era Is Overโ โ and my thoughts started spinning. Not because the argument was new, but because it connected dots Iโd been seโฆ
Hackathon Gamification: A Real-Time Leaderboard You Can Deploy in 5 Minutes
Lisbon, 6 AM, Rising Sun Lisbon at dawn โ the best way to start a hackathon day Three days in Lisbon. Not for sightseeing, though the city makes that hard to resist. Iโm here for an AI hackathon โ teaโฆ
The Agent Security Stack Nobody Is Building
The Scenario Nobody Planned For Itโs 11 PM. Your customer support agent, the AI one, is processing a refund request. It queries the order database, pulls the customerโs payment history, and calls the โฆ
The 732-Byte Wake-Up Call
Security is not a phase you pass through on the way to production. It is a permanent condition. On April 29, 2026, a security research team published a vulnerability that works on every Linux distribuโฆ
The Bottleneck Moved: What 10 Studies Say About AI Developer Productivity
The Pattern I Keep Seeing Every few weeks, a customer asks me the same question: โWe rolled out AI coding tools to 500 engineers. Why arenโt we shipping faster?โ I wrote about this a month ago. The daโฆ
The Book That Made Me Build My Own Website
A Gift to Humanity In 1993, Tim Berners-Lee made a decision that shaped the modern world: he gave the World Wide Web away for free. No patents, no licensing fees, no royalties. CERN released the technโฆ
Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever
The Talk That Confirmed What Iโve Been Seeing Matt Pocock stood on stage at the AI Engineer Summit and said something that most of the audience needed to hear: the developers who succeed with AI codinโฆ