03-Nov-2026 Content of Interest

Med Dev

Paradomics: From Brain Waves to Browser Tabs - Medical Product Outsourcing (Sam Brusco) "The system records neural activity at the individual-neuron level and translates users’ intentions into speech, digital commands, and movement."

The road to opaque software is paved with good (engineering) intentions (Tomas Petricek) Interesting historical case studies.
Opinion: Programmers Are Not The Welders (M. Washington) "The difference is that we are the ones who know how to build the robots."
Program (David Schmudde) "Civilization is built on media."
The Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI (Jan van den Berg) "Adding agents to a project with unclear requirements gets you the wrong answer faster."
Let’s Build a Brain (Aatish Bhatia, Arkarup Banerjee) Cool!
Why are good developers so wary of agentic development? (Rachel Laycock) "The application ran. The build was red."

The New Reality Remade: Medtech’s 2026 Year in Review (Michael Barbella) "Today, AI has a clear role in healthcare."
The Top MedTech CEOs of 2026 – - The Healthcare Technology Report. Yay Mick!
What Are the Top Connected Medical Devices Companies in 2026? "The global Connected Medical Devices Market size valued at USD 41B in 2026 and is expected to reach USD 79B by 2035."

The reports of Stack Overflow’s death are greatly exaggerated (Philippe Beaudette) "Stack Overflow is not standing still, and it is not disappearing."
EMACS Turns 50 (BeauHD) 🎉
Bliki: LLM Voice (Martin Fowler) "it's very hard to expel the LLM-Voice"
The Counting House (Steve Yegge) "But this is yet another reason SDLC-side AI has been slow to take off. Software factories are hideously expensive, hard to learn, hard to maintain"

Is this the new cyber normal? (Drew Silcock) When it rains, it pours!
I’m 38. If You’re in Your 20’s or 30’s, Read This. (Tim Denning) Getting old sucks.
How to Make Things, and Why (Stuart Hallowy) Clojure/Conj 2026 presentation. "LLMs are automation"
The Pulse: Anthropic builds its own source control system (Ivan Klaric) 30,000 merges per day!
The Second Messenger (Mike Fisher) "Before you walk in, know who will be standing next to you."
No more tech debt (Swizec Teller) "Rewriting your code is always strategic."

How long until wearable brain-computer interfaces become mainstream? (Damien Coyle) "wearable BCIs is possible – but only if investment shifts from gadget development toward large-scale validation, ecosystem development and responsible deployment."
OpenAI Invests in Startup That Uses Brain Implants to Detect Cancer (Emily Mullin)

Why FDA’s AI Framework Falls Short for Agentic Medical Devices (Claire Wallace) "The agency's traditional risk-based framework was built for software with predictable, repeatable behavior. Agentic AI breaks that assumption"
Developers, not doctors, should be held accountable for generative AI medical devices, providers say (Anuja Vaidya) "developers should carry the responsibility of monitoring AI devices used in healthcare, and the FDA should create ways for providers to report problems with devices."
AI-enabled medical devices require an integrated FDA and IP strategy following draft … - IAM Media

Cheaper code won’t kill software development, but it’s already reshaping it (Chris Ford) "Code is one of the most expensive and most important inputs in our industry, and when an input like that changes price, everything built around it shifts too."
The Art of Learning (Liam Cleary) "Learning how to accomplish something is not always the same as understanding why it works."
Trends #12: We ship 3x more code and review it the same way (Dr Milan Milanovic) "Teams with agents went from 21 to 65 PRs a week, teams without from 8 to 10"
The Vanishing Engineering Signal in AI Hackathons (Christina Lin) "the traditional hackathon has largely lost its signal as a test of great engineering."
TBM 445: The Feature Factory: A 10-Year Retrospective (John Cutler) Who doesn't work for a feature factory?
The geometric model of maintenance (~kqr) "James Shore posits that each person-month spent writing code results in 10 days of maintenance in the first year, then 5 days every year after that.

Torn Down to Last (Mike Fisher) "We can now produce more code, faster than ever, without necessarily understanding everything we’re creating."
Software engineers don’t get to be Luddites about AI (Sean Goedecke) "We are like the smiths and mechanics who built the power looms in the first place."
AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill. (Huahai) Re: Rich Hickey's article: ’AI’ is Not a Tool
Humans Guessing About Humans (tig) "Hiring has a disproportionate impact on a company’s culture."
12 things I miss since coding died (Anton Zaides) "Our old career is dead, and there are new and exciting ones, with many interesting challenges."
Clojure in the Age of Language Models (Dmitri Sotnikov)
The Last Technical Interview (Steve Yegge) "Interviewing, it turns out, is a big game of darts."

The Hidden Compliance Liability in AI (Rita King) "A vendor becomes a compliance risk when confidence in its AI exceeds the evidence supporting it."
Digital Engineering for Connected Medical Devices 2026 - TyN Magazine "the underlying architecture must support robust connectivity without compromising safety, security, or regulatory compliance."