16-Feb-2026 Content of Interest

Software

The future of software engineering (/thoughtworks) Retreat findings and strategic insights
The Final Bottleneck (Armin Ronacher) "whenever a bottleneck was removed, innovation happened downstream from that"
AI is slowly munching away my passion (Dimitris Zervas) "AI has robbed me of credibility."
The AI Vampire (Steve Yegge) "Being in the same room with AI is draining people."
Besieged (Stephen O’Grady) "The real world implications are much broader, hence the anxiety, apprehension and fear associated with increased use of AI."
42% of Code Is Now AI-Assisted! (Anastasija Uspenski) This is just the beginning!
Getting the main thing right (Sean Goedecke) "you should spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out what to focus on"

RIP Low-Code 2014-2025 (Zack Liscio) Good riddance!
Death of Software. Nah. (Steven Sinofsky) "Strap in. This is the most exciting time for business and technology, ever."
Large tech companies don’t need heroes (Sean Goedecke) "In large tech companies, good software often seems like it is produced by accident"
Simple Made Easy (Rich Hickey) Reminder to watch this great video regularly.
Java in 2026: still boring, still powerful, still printing money (Paulo Victor Gomes) "Java still rocks."
Programming is Dead: The Future of Software Engineering (Hampton Lintorn-Catlin) The Jacquard loom was a game changer in the fabrics industry. Beware of analogies though!

Humanity’s last programming language Hmm... Interesting.
Insomnia isn’t a waste of time (Curiositry) "We all know how important good sleep is for good health"

I left FAANG for a startup and regretted it (Lawrence Tang) These career stories are always interesting.
I miss thinking hard. (Juan Ernesto) "My Builder side won’t let me just sit and think about unsolved problems, and my Thinker side is starving while I vibe-code."
My View of Software Engineering Has Changed For Good (Frantisek Lucivjansky) "Machines will execute, humans will supervise and judge"
look for what’s true (Patrick Dubroy) Good advice.
The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding (Addy Osmani) "AI isn’t replacing engineers. It’s amplifying them - for better and for worse."

A CEO, Captured. (Om) "Cook is not stupid. He is not evil. He is trapped."
ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files (Simon Willison) Interesting.
Thinking About Thought Leadership (Eleanor Berger Eleanor) "We need more thought leaders because we need more ways of thinking."
I’m addicted to being useful (Sean Goedecke) "...they don’t do it for the treats. They do it for the work itself, which is inherently satisfying."
The lost art of XML (Marcos Magueta) "The fact that we now consider this "old-fashioned" says more about our current priorities than about XML's utility."

The FDA Raised the Bar on MedTech Cybersecurity: Are Companies Ready? (Justin Kozak) "Section 524B specifically targets “cyber devices”—any device with software connecting to a network."

You’re in a computer literacy filter bubble (Curiositry) "If your mother uses Linux, you’re probably in a computer literacy filter bubble."

Designing real systems with immutable data in Clojure (Nubank Editorial) “building on bedrock instead of building on sand.”
The Retirement Crisis No One Warns You About: Mattering (Jennifer Breheny Wallace) Yeah, retirement is a going to be a tough transition!
The Death of Software Development (Michael Arnaldi) "We are living through the Industrial Revolution of Software."
Why We’ve Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 (Stephan Schwab) History never fails to repeat itself.
Modern life is good actually (Chris Arnade) "We might never be able to achieve perfection, but we might as well keep aiming for it"
Bring back opinionated architecture (Frederick Vanbrabant) "So, let’s stop taking the escape hatch of “it depends.” Pick a lane, document it well, and build it simply."

Your AI tool is subject to medical device regulation | Nature Health (Bilal A. Mateen, Johan Ordish, Michael J. A. Reid) "Here we highlight the existing regulations around the use of AI as a tool to inform public health and clinical decision making"