14-Sep-2026 Content of Interest

Software

We are all Product Engineers now (Laurie Voss) "The job of making software will become what the agents can’t do"
Make it anyway (Joel Auterson) "I can keep making things the way I enjoy, keep learning, keep doing it the hard way, for no real concrete reason other than I want to do it."
I like ‘em thick (Adam Mastroianni) "If something has survived for centuries, then there’s probably something to it."
The Brake, and Who Gets to Press It? (Shannon) "I told it I wished AI would not act like humans."
I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service (Mathew Duggan) "My new job is to watch the robot work."

The Semmelweis Reflex (Mike Fisher) "Inviting challenge in the abstract costs you nothing."
What is the future of Software Engineering when nobody needs to write code? (Dr Milan Milanovi) "Code was never the product."
The oldest architecture in computing (Dr. Werner Vogels) "the brain is the oldest architecture in computing"
Is it too much to ask devs to use AI to review their hand-crafted code? Lots of interesting comments. "Even if you hate AI-generated code, you can use an AI to identify issues and you can fix them yourself."
The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI (Ivan Klaric) "Underpinning this was the assumption that AI would enable these smaller teams to operate as well as before."
Why Functional Programming Makes Complex Systems Easier to Build (Jiri Knesl) "Why does software complexity grow faster than added feature?"

Load-Bearing People (Mike Fisher) "Every system has a left-pad"
Revisiting Joel’s Test (Philip Zeyliger) "still relevant, but, with the advent of agents, there are more questions"
Beyond Vibe-Coding (Andrew Byrne) "AI is the implementer; you are the architect."
There’s nothing wrong with a faster horse (Julie Yack) "Use → Adopt → Adapt → ?"
You Can’t “Vibe Code” Love (Jeff Atwood) "Less duplication. More answers, faster. That's the point."
The end of programming (Paul Dix) “But the most productive software creators will be doing it without programming in any traditional sense."
Don’t Waste Your Career Getting Comfortable (Juan Cruz Martinez) Good advice.
GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven (Charalampos Kardaris) Agreed!
You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It (Mathew Duggan) "That's the thing about being hated by the right people which is it is a currency and a valuable one."

Navigating The New Era Of Design Controls For SaMDs A Strategic Guide (Partha Anbil) Harmonized QMSR, Agile methodologies via AAMI TIR45, AI management with PCCPs

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"