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The Pragmatic EngineerDark AI Factories Break: Context Engineering and Slow Loops Work
Dex Horthy explains why his lights-off coding factory failed and how context engineering plus incremental loops are the pragmatic path to reliable AI code.
AI EngineerSoftware engineering is becoming a product taste job
Anthropic’s agents now land 65% of product PRs, shifting engineering to product thinking and raising the bar for automated code review.
IBM TechnologyWhen AI Guardrails Lock Out the Good Guys
Open models unshackle attackers but block defenders with guardrails. CISA’s simpler patch-prioritization model may lack teeth.
Theo - t3․ggThe Rewrite Option Is Back
Bun’s Zig-to-Rust rewrite shows AI can now execute large-scale code migrations, but the real lesson is that community governance is the new hidden risk.
AI EngineerContext Engineering, Not Model Smarts, Is Blocking Production Agents
Atlan’s experiments show managing context as versioned, skill-based systems creates operational headaches—the infrastructure gap scaling teams must close.
AI EngineerAI Skills Without Evals Are Production Time Bombs
AI skills boost agents ~15%, but unevaluated skills silently fail and waste tokens. Here's the eval discipline most teams are missing.
AI EngineerHow Cursor’s FDE Team Avoids the Staff Augmentation Trap
Cursor’s FDE lead shares a sharp framework for deciding where high-touch engineering actually drives ROI—and where it’s just expensive staff augmentation.
AI EngineerOwning the Verdict, Not Writing Code
Why the engineer’s scarce skill is no longer coding but evidence-based accountability, and how cognitive debt threatens AI adoption.
GOTO ConferencesAI Agents Need Sandboxing, Not Free Rein
Tau5 experiments with AI agents given temporary access to system internals via MCP—but only inside a sandbox. A safe pattern for dev tooling.
AI JasonThe Agent Harness Is Now Your Codebase
Pi agent’s extensions put the harness under version control, turning guardrails, token filters, and UI into code. You trade polish for full ownership.
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