27-Aug-2026 Content of Interest

Software

AI agents aren’t safe from prompt injection, and spreadsheets prove it (Josip Antolis) TIL about prompt injection.
The Sea Squirt Problem (Mike Fisher) "What happens after you find your rock"
The AI-Native SDLC playbook (Claude) Wow!
How should engineering leaders measure the ROI of AI? (Lizzie Matusov)
(WITH-AI …) (Joe Marshall) "Add CSRF protection"
Git at any scale (Vicent Martí) "TL;DR, but interesting read nevertheless."

FDA expands device compatibility for Paradromics’ brain-computer interface (Todd Shryock) "device pathway reflects a broader pattern in how the FDA is approaching connected and software-driven medical technology"

Principal Drift in Practice (Shreshta Shyamsundar) "Navigating cognitive debt in AI-driven SDLC"
Seeing Like a State (Mike Fisher) "The forest your dashboards cannot see is the one keeping you alive. Walk in it."
Your Second Skill Was Never a Parachute (Pinal Dave) Interesting read. "The Ladder That Lost Its Bottom Rungs"
Keep Building Without Getting Paid (Teon Beijl) "Ode to the Hobbyist"
How to usher in an era of abundant vengeance (Mike Monteiro) "The only way to win a con is to not play."
There Is Still No Silver Bullet (Christian Ekrem) Fred Brooks: "The essence and the accident"

Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts (James Crawford) "Now noninvasive, wearable brain scanners are beginning to proliferate beyond the lab"

The hardware gap is why legacy medical devices struggle with modern connectivity (John O’Gorman) "pressure to add IoT connectivity to devices that were never designed for it."
Making AI work in a regulated MedTech industry - Med-Tech Insights (Mahesh Wale) "The FDA has authorised more than 1,400 AI and machine learning-enabled devices, up from around 950 in 2024."

Introduction to Post-training (Sharon Zhou) Informative.
AI Coding Has Erased the Supposed Advantage of Statically Typed Languages (Huahai) "To an AI, languages differ primarily in how much code, and therefore how many tokens, it must generate to express the same idea."
When a Missed Message Becomes a Missed Meal (Global Technology) "How hard can it be to just keep track of the order?"
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering (Florian Herrengt) "You can't afford bad engineers anymore"

Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy (Naomi Bashkansky) "thought-to-text models, trained on non-invasive neural data." Conduit

Negative-interest tech debt (Jesse Duffield) "That is, with sufficient AI progress, the interest on your tech debt is sub-zero."
The Dark Night of Mathematics (Kirwin Hampshire) "LLMs are eating the world!"
some software talks i like (Charlotte Som) Good list.
The End of No Code (Philip Zeyliger) "The SaaSpocalypse is under way"
The Shape of Things to Come (Steve Yegge) TL;DR, but "Emacs is effectively a full operating system with one of the most sophisticated scripting environments the world has ever seen."

The FDA was all in on AI. Will that change? (Kelly Bilodeau) "High-level turnover has introduced uncertainty about how quickly the FDA’s agency-wide AI strategy will move forward."
New Sleep Monitoring Device Tracks Brain Cleansing (Alex Music) "Monitoring the elusive activity of the glymphatic system could aid Alzheimer’s research"
AI needs a quality management system - MedTech World (Bob Bouthillier) "validating the complete architecture in which deterministic software and AI operate together"

Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain (Neal Stephenson) "Not for everyone, but still an interesting read."
What side projects have you enjoyed the most? "Lots of interesting projects."
Zugunruhe (Mike Fisher) "pronounced roughly zook-oon-roo-ha. Migratory restlessness. Zug, to move. Unruhe, unrest."
The Productivity Mirage "But ultimately what matters most is solving the right problems."