Notes
NOTES ON SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS & CRAFT
- Nobody Built a Software Factory. They Bolted Agents to the Old Assembly Line.
AUG 2026On August 27, Uber reported that more than 70% of its pull requests now come from agents. - Agent auth, twice
JUL 2026I built MCP servers with OAuth 2.1 at two companies before mid-2026. Notes from doing the same thing twice. - AI is about to get fast, and it’s never going to slow down
JUN 2026On June 9, Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5, and every scoreboard agreed at once. #1 on Artificial Analysis. - If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?
APR 2026For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore. - AI Agents Don’t Need Pull Requests. They Need Feedback Loops.
MAR 2026A few weeks ago, I published a piece arguing that GitHub’s model is breaking under AI-generated code. - AI Agents Don’t Need Your Developer Tools
MAR 2026Vercel built sixteen specialized tools for their AI agent. - GitHub Is Dying and Developers Don’t Even Know It Yet
FEB 2026In 2008, GitHub changed how developers worked. In 2018, Microsoft paid $7.5 billion to own that change. - Something Flipped in December
FEB 2026In July 2025, the most rigorous study ever conducted on AI coding tools found they made experienced developers 19% slower.