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Programming languages, frameworks, and software development practice.
Stack Overflow Blog
Ryan welcomes Mike Swift, co-founder and CEO of Major League Hacking, to the show to chat about the never-ending need for software developer communities and entry points into programming; MLH’s recent acquisition of DEV and how they’re creating a place for...
Martin Fowler
A mental model for building trust in coding agents through feedforward guides, feedback sensors, and iterative harness engineering.
GitHub Engineering
I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here's what I learned about working better with coding agents.
Martin Fowler
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
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 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
Coding guidelines and standards for agents need to be a little different—more explicit, demonstrative of patterns, and obvious.
Stack Overflow Blog
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
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
A mental model for building trust in coding agents through feedforward guides, feedback sensors, and iterative harness engineering.
Martin Fowler
a bliki entry for Future Of Software Development