Bending Spoons acquired Airtable for $1.28 billion, marking a turning point for no-code platforms as LLM loops with tool use make traditional no-code tools less relevant. The author, a former Airtable…
A new analysis by Iain on the blog argues that the divide between AI 'foomers' and 'doomers' in software development is a systems failure, not a cultural one, citing NBER Working Paper No. 35275 which…
New data from Veracode, Stack Overflow, and METR confirms that AI tools have made prototyping cheaper but not production, with Veracode's 2025 GenAI Code Security Report finding that LLMs introduced k…
Agentic software development is shifting the economic model of the software industry by making custom code variants cheaper to produce, potentially making customisation economically viable for more cu…
Ben Greene, founder of Tessi, told an audience that software engineers must adopt startup mindsets to survive the rise of coding agents, which are already enabling companies to retask employees to tra…
Software developers have abandoned traditional engineering norms and now rely heavily on large language models (LLMs) to write code, debug errors, and scaffold entire systems without fully understandi…
Programming undergoes a technology shift roughly every decade, but the engineering fundamentals remain unchanged, argues Fagner Brack in a Medium essay. Each cycle—from punch cards to AI agents—rename…
AI struggles with generating code requiring global program understanding, often producing excessive defensive checks that increase state complexity. Programming language design may offer solutions, bu…
The newsletter discusses the challenges of measuring developer productivity and predicting timelines, drawing parallels between Fred Brooks' 'The Mythical Man-Month' and modern AI agentic software dev…
In a 2020 analysis of Fred Brooks' 1986 essay 'No Silver Bullet,' the author argues that Brooks' claim of a 2x limit on programmer productivity improvements is flawed. The author contends that Brooks …
A developer argues that AI agents are enabling smaller software teams by reducing coordination overhead, not by replacing developers. The shift allows a few people to direct AI systems across roles li…
AI coding assistants have dramatically reduced the cost of writing code, but the essential complexity of understanding and safely modifying software systems remains unchanged, according to a senior AI…