This is the eighth article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, part two here, part three here, part four here, part five here, part six here, and part seven here. “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”—Bill Gates (allegedly) If you’re building AI agents that do complex, multistep work, you’re going to run into context […]
The demo to production Death Valley If you’ve worked on an AI feature, you know the feeling. You start building something that you are excited about, set launch timelines. The model spits out a perfect response, the prototype works magically, and everybody in the room is mentally calculating how big this product will be when […]
On June 1, GitHub Copilot’s usage-based billing became active for all Copilot plans, and developers reacted quickly and loudly. A Pro plan still costs $10, but it now comes with a monthly pool of AI credits. Those credits are priced at a penny each, and they’re consumed according to the model used and the tokens […]
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. A long-running AI agent can keep making progress over hours, days, or weeks. It can do this across many context windows and sandboxes, recover from failure, leave structured artifacts behind, and resume where it left off. For […]
The following article originally appeared on Paolo Perrone’s The AI Engineer Substack and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. Your team picks LangGraph for a customer support chatbot. Three weeks in, you’ve got 14 nodes in a state graph, a custom checkpointer writing to Redis, and retry logic for tool calls that fail […]
On this week’s episode, host and the founder of AI advisory firm Intelligence Briefing Andreas Welsch brought together Maya Mikhailov, cofounder and CEO of Savvi AI, and Doug Shannon, generative AI and intelligent automation leader, to cover a handful of interconnected topics that practitioners are navigating right now: OpenAI’s push into personal finance, the role […]
I set up an AI agent on a rented GPU, pointed it at a training script, and went to bed. By morning it had run 40 experiments, improved validation loss by 5.9%, and cut memory usage from 44 GB to 17 GB. It also spent four hours chasing a bug that a linter introduced behind […]
DJ Patil has spent the past several months on a listening tour. Wherever he travels, he finds a local university, pings faculty and students and anyone else who wants to show up, and runs an AMA. He’s heard from grad students who can’t get callbacks, hospital administrators dealing with federal policy changes that land like […]
A third of the way into a security-operations guide that Anthropic published in April 2026, wedged between a recommendation to patch CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and a suggestion to automate your deployment pipeline is a small recommendation: “Use EPSS to prioritize the rest.” For anyone who has worked on a vulnerability backlog in the […]
As syntax becomes cheap and abundant, architectural control becomes the scarce resource. Effective governance starts upstream, where intent, constraints, and threat models shape the agent’s working context before generation begins. The goal isn’t better prompting but build-time boundaries that prevent structurally invalid code from entering the system. The Frankenstein factories The dark factories (as Dan […]
Adam Tooze recently shared a piece from The Economist about Brazil’s push for what it calls “medical sovereignty,” the determination to make its own vaccines and the active ingredients that go into its medicines rather than depend on supply chains it doesn’t control. Brazil already produces a large share of its own medicines through public […]
With the rise of agents, many people have been proclaiming that the age of software as a service (SaaS) is over. Who needs to subscribe to a service when you can create your own software with a few English-language prompts and a few dollars spent on tokens? Your own software, most likely a skill that […]
The following article originally appeared on the Asimov’s Addendum Substack and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. Bill Gurley has an excellent article on what he calls open source strategy, which we recommend reading. There is a lot to debate about his concluding argument in particular: that open-weight models are central to keeping the AI market […]
This is the seventh article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, part two here, part three here, part four here, part five here, and part six here. This is the latest article in my Radar series on AI-driven development and agentic engineering, and I have to admit that this one took a bit of […]
Last week, we had our first Infrastructure & Ops superstream of 2026, Platform Engineering in the Age of AI. Our speakers explored a range of topics focused on supporting new AI workloads, each with unique infrastructure needs, unpredictable costs, and novel security concerns. Google Cloud’s Abdel Sghiouar took the audience through what a good platform […]