Lamar Jackson, Tyler Loop and the Ravens delivered one of the most remarkable last-second victories in recent NFL history Sunday, thanks to a late fourth-quarter decision made by the Cowboys.

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TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.

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We showcase a new generation of artists with swag: Alex Isley, Madison McFerrin and Ravi Coltrane. All three of these Tiny Desks feature folks who come from legendary musical families. Look for Tiny Desk Radio on your local NPR station.

After a decade and $2.2 billion, most CCWIS modernization money still flows to legacy systems. The problem isn't funding or technology — it's the Implementation APD. Here's why it should become a veri...

People think AI agents and delegation-based digital services are a radical idea. But people delegate all kinds of interactions with government to third parties today. It’s way more common tha…

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol that describes how agents can connect to external tools and data sources, and is now widely supported by the...

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Why Domain-Specific Languages and good abstractions make LLM code generation reliable and reviewable.

After four decades as a founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea goes solo with a stellar jazz band.

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

People that are new to AI coding often make the mistake of assuming it is just a new form of automation. The truth is that it’s actually delegation, and that distinction is critically importa…

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Two practitioners working independently have extended SpecOps in ways the original articulation didn't fully anticipate — and both point to a deeper understanding of spec drift.

Maintainers of open source repositories are dealing with an ever-growing volume of pull requests, including repeated low-quality or drive-by contributions that can slow triage and overwhelm review que...

How the Anthropic Code Modernization Plugin and SpecOps methodology complement each other to create a complete legacy modernization pipeline, from extraction through governance.

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In the last couple of years, I’ve been trying to read more books. Here’s what I have done to pick my reading habit back up. Maybe one of these strategies will work for you if, like I on…

AI is changing the way government teams will practice agile. Are agencies ready for the change?

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A new Carnegie Mellon study shows AI coding tools boost velocity by 281% — then leave codebases harder to work with. Here's what open source communities need to do before the sugar rush wears off.

AI-assisted development is changing what governments should share. When code is cheap to generate, domain knowledge and specifications become the valuable assets.

How we used AI to extract a complete specification from a 25-year-old Microsoft Access application, producing 13 modular documents in roughly 4–5 hours of collaborative work.

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We're joined by Mark Headd author The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Modernizing Legacy Technology Systems. We talk about good modernization practices like the strangler fig pattern as well as w...

A new study reveals a troubling pattern in open source projects adopting AI coding tools. The fix, it turns out, may lie in an idea as familiar as a CONTRIBUTING.md file — but updated for the AI er…