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In my last post using Kent Beck’s 3X Framework, I argued that agentic engineering is being perceived at different phases of maturity depending on where you sit. Executives believe the systems are matu...

When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i...

Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.

For engineering leaders navigating agentic transformation

The rise of coding agents hasn't eliminated the need for platform engineering. If anything, it's made building blocks, guardrails, and durable systems more critical than ever.

The Government Accountability Office can't even verify the books. Here's what Congress must do.

Code reviews were never really about catching bugs. The research is clear. As agentic coding floods our repos with pull requests, we need to lean into what reviews are actually good at, and get better...

For years, we’ve been told that software is eating the world. Big, cloud-hosted platforms — Salesforce, Notion, Slack, Jira, Airtable — working to solve every problem for every team, at any scale. And...

I moved my 20+ year old WordPress blog off Bluehost and onto a modern static site setup with Hugo and Cloudflare Workers. What I expected to be a painful, multi-week project turned into a surprisingly...

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