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Sep 21, 2026AIclaude

Building on Rented Intelligence: The Receipts Behind Claude's Silent Downgrade

  1. Sep 21, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Part 2: High-Speed Boundary Classification

    Protecting Ingress with Calibrated Probabilities

  2. Sep 18, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Part 1: The Missing Primitive in Agentic AI — Kicking the Tires on TypeSafe's Jev

    The Missing Primitive in Agentic AI — Kicking the Tires on TypeSafe's Jev

  3. Sep 18, 2026AI#softwareengineering

    Resolving a Council of Independent AI Reviewers into a Single Decision

  4. Sep 17, 2026AI#softwareengineering

    Council Calibration: How Four Agent CLIs Handled a Bounded Research Task

  5. Sep 16, 2026AI#softwareengineering

    Operational Notes: Orchestrating Multi-Agent CLI Councils Inside Herdr

  6. Sep 14, 2026Artificial Intelligenceclaude-code

    Incident recap: a fully specified planning task, and how Claude Code still got it wrong

  7. Aug 27, 2026Artificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering

    The Information Ladder in the AI SDLC

  8. Aug 22, 2026

    Clod Code 2.0

    Or How to Burn Customer Trust

  9. Aug 5, 2026Artificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering

    Flower Power

    Why daisyUI Is Great for Modern Projects

  10. Aug 4, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    How an AI-Native Team Organizes the Build

  11. Jul 28, 2026Artificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering

    Success through failure: A short design playbook for agent gates

  12. Jul 22, 2026Artificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering

    Learnings from an Expensive AI-Driven Failure

  13. Jul 17, 2026Artificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering

    Best Practices Are Now for the Model, Too

  14. Jul 16, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Your Agentic Swarm Will Build a Spaghetti Monster (Unless You Draw the Boundaries First)

  15. Jul 15, 2026Artificial IntelligenceSoftware Engineering

    This Week in AI Engineering: GPT-5.6's Tiers, Tuning the Harness, and Agents That Pay (and Get Caught)

  16. Jul 9, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    This Week in AI: 150 PRs a Week, a $234B SaaS Warning, and Agents That Can Pay

  17. Jul 7, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    The AI-Native Way to Organize Software Work

  18. Jul 7, 2026AIllm

    The problem with "does this look right?"

  19. Jul 3, 2026AISoftware Engineering

    Recent AI News In Case You Missed It: Gated Models, Cheap Coders, and the Agent Stack