AI models are becoming a commodity, making the software harness that wraps around them the key differentiator for real-world work, according to a technical analysis by Technically. A harness adds tool…
Nikhil Suresh reports that AI projects are universally failing across organizations, with a 0% success rate observed in all projects his team has encountered over the past year and a half. He argues t…
Developers are increasingly turning to Buildkite for CI/CD as GitHub struggles with exponential growth in pull requests and automation driven by AI coding agents. Buildkite, used by Airbnb, PagerDuty,…
Mitchell Hashimoto argued on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast that merge queues break under AI agent churn, but a merge-queue company founder counters that the queue itself isn't the problem—contention …
Rahul of Greptile reports that AI-generated pull request spam is overwhelming open-source projects like OpenClaw, where PRs surged from 2 to 3,400 per week and merge rates dropped from 48% to 9.3%. Th…
Mitchell Hashimoto pledged an additional $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, bringing total support to $700,000. Hashimoto praised Zig's technical progress and community philosophy, including its…
The AI agent development stack is shifting from frameworks to harnesses—control loops that wrap models and manage task decomposition, retries, and context. Leaders from LlamaIndex, LangChain, Anthropi…
GitHub faces stability issues and high-profile departures like Ghostty, prompting developers to seek alternatives. Tangled, a Git forge built on the AT Protocol, offers a decentralized, open-source so…
A coding agent built a 3D Paris gallery by chaining two Hugging Face Spaces — one for image generation and one for 3D reconstruction — without any human intervention in asset creation. The agent used …
Mitchell Hashimoto is advising developers to stop updating software dependencies and instead fork and trim libraries, updating only when user-facing issues arise. The recommendation follows a spring o…
The article discusses the growing fragmentation of code forges as users and companies migrate from GitHub to alternatives like Codeberg, Forgejo, and GitLab. It highlights key concerns such as trackin…
A medium-sized technology company recently used a coding agent to rewrite both its legacy iPhone and Android apps in React Native, citing the framework's recent improvements and full coverage of their…