Issue #233
Doubling Uber Eat’s search speed
We go heavy on engineering this week
September 14, 2026
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Issue #232
Emerging behavior with AI agents
The deeper we get into agent-only flows, the more opportunities we get to discover emerging behaviors when they collaborate.
September 07, 2026
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Issue #231
The end of programming is upon us
Not to be too daunting, but programming as we know it is coming to an end.
August 31, 2026
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Issue #230
Agent memory is harder than it sounds
Developers have dozens of options to choose from for managing memories, but it might be a little more involved than importing something from …
August 24, 2026
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Issue #229
AI is not the answer
It's becoming easier and easier to use AI for everything from writing code to writing content. But should you? No. Probably not.
August 17, 2026
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Issue #228
New use cases for new engineering paradigms
The speed feels like its been turned to 11 with engineering norms and the way we're building these days
August 10, 2026
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Issue #227
Works on my machine
Last week was full of great solutions that solve some specific use cases. But they might not solve everybody's.
August 03, 2026
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Issue #226
The true value of developers in the AI era
As we see more and more code being written by AI agents, developers need to realize their value was never the coding part.
July 27, 2026
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Issue #225
Show your work
In an age where software is cheap and human-written content is scarce, I want to remind you to share what you learned!
July 20, 2026
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