July 26, 2026 Weekly Review — July 20-26, 2026

TL;DR: Three posts about the cost you can’t see until you go looking. “Laws & Disorder” continues with Hyrum’s Law: every observable behavior of your API is a contract someone depends on, and AI agent…

July 24, 2026 Stop Guessing Which Coding Agent to Use — Benchmark It on Your Own Tasks

TL;DR: Generic coding-agent leaderboards don’t tell you which model or tool fits your work at a budget you’re willing to spend. So I built a small task set that mirrors my real work and ran an open-so…

April 22, 2026 From Cloud-Native to AI-Native: What Actually Changes

The Fifteen-Year Echo Fifteen years apart. Same stage. Different world. In 2010, Adrian Cockcroft stood on the QCon stage and told the audience that Netflix was running its entire business on a public…

April 3, 2026 Security Is Job Zero — Even (Especially) in the Age of Coding Agents

$20 and Two Hours On February 28, 2026, security startup CodeWall gave an autonomous AI agent a single input: a domain name. Two hours and approximately $20 in API tokens later, the agent had full rea…

March 14, 2026 The Coding Agent That Doesn't Code

The Friday That Wrote Itself Last Friday, I used a coding agent for eight hours straight. I didn’t write a single line of code. I prepared a customer meeting by pulling context from Slack threads, cal…