The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch
From The Pragmatic Engineer — selected conversations
The Pragmatic Engineer · Source dated 4 Feb 2026
New to this library, not necessarily new to the world.
From The Pragmatic Engineer — selected conversations
The Pragmatic Engineer · Source dated 4 Feb 2026
From The Pragmatic Engineer — selected conversations
The Pragmatic Engineer · Source dated 29 Jul 2026
Boris Cherny explains why Anthropic removed 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for Opus 5, how to rebuild instructions through empirical ablation, why hard tasks need strong verification, and how dynamic workflows and recurring routines orchestrate agents for long-running work.
Y Combinator · Source dated 27 Jul 2026
Simon Willison argues that coding agents have crossed a practical inflection point, then examines what follows: professional agentic engineering, experimental dark factories, cheap code, proof through tests and real use, reusable project context, and structural defenses against prompt injection.
Lenny's Podcast · Source dated 2 Apr 2026
Thariq Shihipar presents a field guide to working with Fable: expose a model's uneven capabilities through the right tools, identify unknowns before long agent runs, use blind-spot passes, prototypes, interviews, references, and implementation notes, and judge the work by the value it creates rather than the code it generates.
AI Engineer · Source dated 6 Jul 2026
A question-driven editorial route through selected talks in the rolling Coding Agents playlist published by the AI Engineer channel—not complete event coverage. The speakers remain the sources for their individual claims.
AI Engineer · Source dated 31 Jul 2026
From David Ondrej Podcast — selected agentic engineering conversations
David Ondrej · Source dated 27 Jul 2026
An Italian-language playlist about coding-agent supervision, specifications, behavioral testing, model evaluation, developer attention, local inference, and how automation shifts value from implementation effort toward design and invention. The guided summary offers a short route through the most useful starting points.
Salvatore Sanfilippo · Source dated 10 Aug 2026
An Italian-language research notebook on model representations, reasoning, interpretability, architecture claims, open weights, local inference, efficiency, and speculative questions about AI and cosmology. The guided summary frames the playlist as conceptual grounding for evaluating coding agents rather than as a settled theory of AI.
Salvatore Sanfilippo · Source dated 9 Aug 2026
Robert C. Martin and Kent C. Dodds discuss why software architecture remains durable as agents take over more implementation, how structural metrics and tests can close the agent feedback loop, why design judgment still depends on experience, and why engineers need direct empathy for the people using their products.
Kent C. Dodds (plus) · Source dated 22 Jul 2026
From Raising an Agent Season 2 - Series
Amp, Inc. · Source dated 17 Jul 2026
Armin Ronacher and Ben Vinegar track agentic coding through monthly conversations about models, harnesses, software quality, open source, infrastructure, economics, and the changing role of developers. Episode 11 brings in Geoff Huntley to discuss durable agent execution, modifying running software through an LLM, the difficulty of inspecting ad hoc tool code, and experiments made affordable by subscription pricing.
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A 2026 map of coding-agent work: brief the task, preserve context, verify behavior, keep consequential decisions human, and scale only what works.
With Agents · Post published 28 Jun 2026