Software

• Charity Majors is unhappy (Charity Majors) Thoughtworks Feb Retreat: Observability matters.
• Become Builders, Not Coders (Michael Werle) "The era of mostly manual coding has ended. IDEs, in their current form, are no longer necessary."
• What OpenClaw Reveals About the Next Phase of AI Agents (Kesha Williams) "OpenClaw nailed three things that previous agent projects missed: proximity, creativity, and extensibility."
• Grief and the AI Split (Les Orchard) Old habits die hard and everyone grieves differently.
• The 8 Levels of Agentic Engineering (Bassim Eledath) "Your output depends more than you'd think on the level of your teammates."

Emacs

• Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI (Bozhidar Batsov) Good read.

Med Dev

• Chicken or the Egg: Should Device Interoperability or QMS Interoperability Come First? (Carl Washburn) "As an integration project matures new QMS Interoperability requirements may arise from new connected device requirements."