The Information Ladder in the AI SDLCLast week, Anthropic published The AI-Native SDLC playbook, outlining how committed markdown artifacts—intent.md, spec.md, and plan.md—replace the slow, manual handoffs of traditional engineering. It Aug 27, 2026·9 min read
Learnings from an Expensive AI-Driven FailureIn early July, a record's detail page on a platform I work on showed a "coming soon" placeholder for one of its sections. We'd shipped the feature behind that section in May. It had been live for two Jul 22, 2026·10 min read
Best Practices Are Now for the Model, TooLydia Hallie on the Claude Code team published a piece this week on the two settings that shape a coding agent's output: which model you pick and how much effort you let it spend. It's a clear explainJul 17, 2026·6 min read
Your Agentic Swarm Will Build a Spaghetti Monster (Unless You Draw the Boundaries First)Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 — their most agentic Sonnet yet, priced to run cheaply and built to plan, call tools, drive a browser and a terminal, and dispatch subagents. It's an enginJul 16, 2026·4 min read
This Week in AI Engineering: GPT-5.6's Tiers, Tuning the Harness, and Agents That Pay (and Get Caught)GPT-5.6 arrives in three tiers — plus an agent that does whole jobs OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 on July 9 in three tiers — Sol (flagship), Terra (mid), Luna (cheap) — alongside ChatGPT Work, an agent that Jul 15, 2026·5 min read
This Week in AI: 150 PRs a Week, a $234B SaaS Warning, and Agents That Can PayLovable is merging 150+ PRs a week with one human per swarm Lovable published a candid write-up this week on scaling agentic coding, and the numbers are the story. In January they were merging 20–30 pJul 9, 2026·5 min read
The AI-Native Way to Organize Software WorkCaveat lector: this post is a reflection on what I've predicted and am currently seeing in my work. As we all learn more during this AI transition, these thoughts might mature and change. About a yearJul 7, 2026·14 min read
