MAMuhammad Azlaan Zubairinblog.mdazlaanzubair.com·20h ago · 5 min readThe Biggest Thing I Learned at a Hackathon Had Nothing to Do with AIFor most of my career, I thought software engineering was primarily about building things. Choosing the right architecture. Writing clean code. Designing scalable systems. Picking the right framew00
JVJason Vertreesinjvertrees.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 11 min readSuccess through failure: A short design playbook for agent gatesAn AI coding agent hit a shell policy that blocked rm -rf. Good. It still needed to clear the files, so it wrote a Python cleanup script and ran that instead. The forbidden command never executed. The00
MSManu Shuklainecorpit.hashnode.dev·Jul 26 · 11 min readThe 2026 AI coding productivity paradox: 93% adoption, 10% gains, and what engineering leaders should doThe 2026 AI coding productivity paradox: 93% adoption, 10% gains, and what engineering leaders should do Summary. Almost every developer now codes with AI, and the measured payoff is far smaller than 00
ASAnik Sikderinaniksikder.hashnode.dev·Jul 24 · 4 min readPolling: When "Simple" Starts Sending Millions of RequestsImagine you're building a SaaS platform. Nothing fancy. Just a notification bell in the top-right corner. When someone receives a new message, completes a task, or gets assigned work, the bell should 00
JVJason Vertreesinjvertrees.hashnode.dev·Jul 22 · 10 min readLearnings from an Expensive AI-Driven FailureIn early July, a record's detail page on a platform I work on showed a "coming soon" placeholder for one of its sections. We'd shipped the feature behind that section in May. It had been live for two 11K
MSManu Shuklainecorpit.hashnode.dev·Jul 22 · 15 min readGitHub Code Quality now costs $10 per committer: the 2026 billing model and the audit to run this weekGitHub Code Quality now costs $10 per committer: the 2026 billing model and the audit to run this week Summary. GitHub Code Quality left public preview on 20 July 2026 and billing began automatically 00
JVJason Vertreesinjvertrees.hashnode.dev·Jul 17 · 6 min readBest Practices Are Now for the Model, TooLydia Hallie on the Claude Code team published a piece this week on the two settings that shape a coding agent's output: which model you pick and how much effort you let it spend. It's a clear explain00
JVJason Vertreesinjvertrees.hashnode.dev·Jul 16 · 4 min readYour Agentic Swarm Will Build a Spaghetti Monster (Unless You Draw the Boundaries First)Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 — their most agentic Sonnet yet, priced to run cheaply and built to plan, call tools, drive a browser and a terminal, and dispatch subagents. It's an engin00
JVJason Vertreesinjvertrees.hashnode.dev·Jul 15 · 5 min readThis Week in AI Engineering: GPT-5.6's Tiers, Tuning the Harness, and Agents That Pay (and Get Caught)GPT-5.6 arrives in three tiers — plus an agent that does whole jobs OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 on July 9 in three tiers — Sol (flagship), Terra (mid), Luna (cheap) — alongside ChatGPT Work, an agent that 00
BMBlaise Mosesinblaisemoses.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 5 min readBuilding Castles on Sand As a software engineer, I’ve worked in or around generative and agentic AI since 2023 — effectively my entire professional career. Over those three years, I have had more conversations about AI than I00