GitHub Engineering
Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science
I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here's what I learned about working better with coding agents.
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Programming
Programming languages, frameworks, and software development practice.
Martin Fowler
Encoding Team Standards
AI coding assistants respond to whoever is prompting, and the quality of what they produce depends on how well the prompter articulates team standards. Rahul Garg proposes treating the instructions that govern AI interactions (generation, refactoring,...
Stack Overflow Blog
How can you test your code when you don’t know what’s in it? - Stack Overflow
Ryan hosts SmartBear’s VP of AI and Architecture Fitz Nowlan to explore how we’re moving away from old assumptions about software development, the challenges of testing MCP servers as LLM-driven agents introduce non-determinism that breaks tradition, and...
Changelog
Astral has been acquired by OpenAI (Changelog News #184)
Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode blew up as the latest serious open source swing at the coding-agent stack. We've also...
Stack Overflow Blog
Building shared coding guidelines for AI (and people too) - Stack Overflow
Coding guidelines and standards for agents need to be a little different—more explicit, demonstrative of patterns, and obvious.
Stack Overflow Blog
The context problem: Why enterprise AI needs more than foundation models - Stack Overflow
Ask an AI coding assistant to, say, “build a React component with a dropdown menu,” and you'll probably get something impressive in seconds—clean code, proper hooks, accessible markup. It's the kind of demo that makes CTOs lean forward in their chairs.
Changelog
Big change brings big change (Changelog News #183)
This week's been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it's seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We've also got a heartfelt take on what it feels like to be a 10x...
Martin Fowler
Harness engineering for coding agent users
A mental model for building trust in coding agents through feedforward guides, feedback sensors, and iterative harness engineering.
Martin Fowler
bliki: Future Of Software Development
a bliki entry for Future Of Software Development
Changelog
Building the machine that builds the machine with Paul Dix, Co-founder & CTO at InfluxDB (Changelog Interviews #676)
Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder's journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what's going to prod, what's not, and why he's (at least for a bit)...
Martin Fowler
Context Engineering for Coding Agents
Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
Martin Fowler
Assessing internal quality while coding with an agent
Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery