APIs and Agents: What Developers Need to Know
AI agents are reshaping how software is written, scaled, and experienced, and many expect the technology to unlock the gains AI firms have long promised. While most companies today remain…
The Future of Engineering Leadership
We’re still in the early days of GenAI adoption, but it’s clear that LLMs are going to materially impact the way that software is built and that engineering orgs are…
Attacking Supply Chains at the Source
We’ve been very lucky. A couple of weeks ago, a supply-chain attack against the Linux xz Utils package, which includes the liblzma compression library, was discovered just weeks before the…
The General Purpose Pendulum
Pendulums do what they do: they swing one way, then they swing back the other way. Some oscillate quickly; some slowly; and some so slowly you can watch the earth…
Communal Computing’s Many Problems
In the first article of this series, we discussed communal computing devices and the problems they create–or, more precisely, the problems that arise because we don’t really understand what “communal”…
Thinking About Glue
In Glue: the Dark Matter of Software, Marcel Weiher asks why there’s so much code. Why is Microsoft Office 400 million lines of code? Why are we always running into…