The Agent-Era Career

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. If the AI layer gets good at anything, it will be anything that has an answer key. School used to be answer keys all the way down. School is the ultimate anchoring of success, because it’s […]

8/21/2026
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This Week in AI: The Web Belongs to Agents Now

AI agents keep getting smarter, but the bigger story this week is how much they’re reshaping the systems around them. Host Eric Freeman, an O’Reilly author and UT Austin professor, pulled one thread through a packed news week. Models are optimizing less for chat and more for autonomous work, with fallout showing up in web […]

8/21/2026
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Principal Drift in Practice

In 2026, the software engineering community is divided by a simple question: Should AI engineers still read the code generated by their agents? One camp argues that code has become virtually free to produce and discard, so humans should focus on systems and guardrails rather than implementation details. The other warns that blindly trusting AI […]

8/20/2026
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When Your Buyer Is an AI Agent

In 2021, Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, deployed AI agents from a startup called Pactum to negotiate freight lane contracts with its carrier suppliers. The objective was for AI agents to handle negotiations autonomously rather than merely support human procurement staff. Operating entirely autonomously, the system manages the end-to-end agreement process, from reaching […]

8/20/2026
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When Guardrails Go Wrong

The latest round of restrictions and safeguards for frontier models are overly fussy and limiting. A Claude skill that I created demonstrates what happens when guardrails go astray. My skill helps me to find articles and blog posts that go into O’Reilly Radar’s monthly Trends to Watch. It reads roughly a dozen well-known sites like […]

8/19/2026
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Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path?

The following article originally appeared on the Tech Policy Press site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In Washington, AI is increasingly being treated as something that needs to be controlled. The government believes that AI is, first and foremost, a national security asset, meaning that it must be sequestered to prevent […]

8/18/2026
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Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: From Prompting to Loop Engineering with Ofer Mendelevitch

Ofer Mendelevitch, head of developer relations at BAND, used this episode of Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes to trace how coding workflows can give agents progressively more room to work on their own. Using a package version resolver as a running example, he compared step-by-step prompting with loop engineering and then showed how multiple […]

8/18/2026
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What’s an Orchestrator—and Why Does Software Need One?

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Everybody’s talking about the death of developers. I get it. The developer whose job was to write boilerplate or scaffold CRUD apps is done—a model can do that in seconds, and that developer is not coming back. But the […]

8/17/2026
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When AI Writes the Code, Specifications Need an Exit Strategy

The following article has been extended and rewritten by Markus Eisele from The Main Thread and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Open a repository after six months of spec-driven agent work and you may find a second system sitting next to the code. Requirements, research notes, high-level designs, low-level designs, implementation plans, […]

8/17/2026
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This Week in AI: When agents outnumber people

AI agents are multiplying, and many of the systems used to manage them weren’t designed for their scale or speed. This week, host Vicki Reyzelman, a senior solutions engineer at Akamai, used one figure to connect developments in cybersecurity, infrastructure, education, and AI governance: For every human on the internet, there are 144 agents. That […]

8/14/2026
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