July 2026 newsletter
ClickHouse's 26.6 release introduces hypothetical skip indexes, AI embedding functions, and experimental continuous queries, while a new case study shows Visa's Authorize.net team using ClickHouse Clo…
ClickHouse's 26.6 release introduces hypothetical skip indexes, AI embedding functions, and experimental continuous queries, while a new case study shows Visa's Authorize.net team using ClickHouse Clo…
Ramp Economics Lab and Revelio Labs report that heavy AI adopters grew headcount by 10%, while Charity Majors emphasizes that honest feedback loops are essential for turning AI adoption into real valu…
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in June, then faced a US government export control directive suspending access by foreign nationals before the controls were lifted and the models were r…
Honeycomb's Charity Majors defends AI mandates as a necessary tool for funding and executing coordinated change on tight timelines, arguing that without mandates, companies signal AI is not a priority…
Chad Fowler's Phoenix Architecture proposes that AI-generated code should be disposable, drawing parallels to immutable infrastructure. Critics argue that natural language is a poor source of truth an…
Honeycomb released the second edition of Observability Engineering, a near-complete rewrite addressing AI-era challenges like validating AI-generated code in production and the risk of shipping faster…
The 550th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,481 peers, features Charity Majors urging disciplined workplace experiments to make AI boring again and Gojko Adzic warning t…
Charity Majors argues that AI is not uniquely evil but just another technology requiring engagement and governance, urging tech workers to learn AI to better critique and shape it. She catalogues harm…
Charity Majors argues that AI is not uniquely evil but just another technology with risks that require engagement, not avoidance. She contends that tech workers have a moral responsibility to use and …
The second edition of Observability Engineering is available for download, sponsored by Honeycomb. Authors Charity Majors and team wrote the book amid the generative AI boom, emphasizing that AI is no…
Charity Majors stated that in 2025, the economics of code production were upended as generating code became effectively free and instant, making lines of code disposable and regenerable instead of tre…
Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career as AI reshapes the profession, according to developers and researchers. The use of AI tools risks cognitive debt and skill atrophy, while the ec…
AI enthusiasts face an existential threat from competitors who adopt rapid AI integration, while skeptics face an existential threat from reliability degradation and institutional knowledge loss cause…
Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb.io, asked what it would take for engineers to feel comfortable shipping code to production without reading it. A developer responded that code review serves to diffuse…
Vercel reports 30% of deployments are now agent-initiated, a 1000% increase in six months, with Claude Code accounting for 75% of those. The surge in agent-driven code changes threatens to overwhelm t…