Radar Trends to Watch: June 2025
AI vendors spent most of May making announcements—and pushing their way into almost every category here. But it’s not the only story worth watching. Doctors have used CRISPR to correct…
Securing AI: Building with Guardrails Before Acceleration
It’s been less than three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT, setting off the GenAI boom. But in that short time, software development has transformed: code-complete assistants evolved into chat-based “vibe…
Vibing at Home
After a post by Andrej Karpathy went viral, “vibe coding” became the buzzword of the year—or at least the first quarter. It means programming exclusively with AI, without looking at…
Radar Trends to Watch: May 2025
Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has received a lot of attention for standardizing the way models communicate with tools, making it much easier to build intelligent agents. Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A)…
Context Serialization
In a recent edition of The Sequence Engineering newsletter, “Why Did MCP Win?,” the authors point to context serialization and exchange as a reason—perhaps the most important reason—why everyone’s talking…
Seniors and Juniors
It almost sounds pejorative, doesn’t it? But the distinction between senior and junior software developers is built into our jobs and job titles. Whether we call it entry-level or something…
Radar Trends to Watch: April 2025
March was the biggest month that Trends has ever had. In addition to almost daily announcements about AI, a lot has been going on in programming, in security, in operations…
AI and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Wolf’s blog post “The Einstein AI Model” is a must-read. He contrasts his thinking about what we need from AI with another must-read, Dario Amodei’s “Machines of Loving Grace.”1…
Think Different
There’s something that bothers me about the chatter that AI is making “intelligence” ubiquitous. For example, in a recent Bloomberg article, “AI Will Upend a Basic Assumption About How Companies…
Radar Trends to Watch: March 2025
Anthropic’s announcement of Claude 3.7 Sonnet notwithstanding, the breakneck pace of major AI announcements seemed to slow down through February. That gave us some time to look at some other…
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