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When we shipped a new feature last quarter, it would have taken three months to build traditionally. It took two weeks. Not because we cut corners or hired contractors, but I fundamentally changed how we create user interfaces. The feature was a customer service dashboard that adapts its layout and information density based on the specific issue a representative is handling. A billing dispute sho…

Everyone working on artificial intelligence these days fears the worst-case scenario. The precocious LLM will suddenly glide off the rails and start spouting dangerous thoughts. One minute it’s a genius that’s going to take all our jobs , and the next it’s an odd crank spouting hatred, insurrection, or worse. Fortunately, there are solutions. Some scientists are building LLMs that can act as guar…

Large language models (LLMs) and AI agents aren’t important to software engineering because they can write code at superhuman speeds. Without the right guardrails, as I’ve highlighted, that speed simply translates into mass-produced technical debt . No, agentic coding matters because it fundamentally changes what counts as good software engineering . For years, developers could get away with opti…

The Rust team has unveiled Rust 1.94. This release adds an array windows capability as an iterating method for the Rust slice type as well as improved management of Cargo configurations. Rust 1.94 was announced March 5 . Developers using a previous version can upgrade via rustup by running rustup update stable . The array_windows method works just like windows but with a constant length, so itera…

Microsoft’s official C# SDK for implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients has reached its 1.0 milestone release. The update brings full support for the 2025-11-25 version of the MCP Specification, highlighted by enhanced authorization server discovery and icon metadata for tools, resources, and prompts. MCP C# SDK 1.0 was unveiled March 5 and can be found on GitHub . The MCP C…

In 2026, most enterprises I talk to are multicloud , not because they set out with a crisp strategy but because reality pushed them there. Mergers and acquisitions bring in workloads on different platforms. Product teams pick the cloud that best matches a short-term delivery deadline. Add leadership mandates to “avoid lock-in,” and suddenly you have three primary providers in play, whether you me…

The JavaScript innovation train is really picking up momentum lately, driven—as always—by the creativity of the JavaScript developer community. The emerging local-first SQL datastores crystalize ideas about client/server symmetry that have been a long time coming. WinterTC is bringing us closer to truly universal, isomorphic JavaScript, aka “write once, run anywhere” for client- and server-side J…

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.110, an update of the popular code editor that makes agents practical for long-running and more complex tasks by giving developers new ways to extend agents, smarter session management, and more visibility and control, the company said. Introduced March 4 , VS Code 1.110, also known as the February 2026 release, can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, or …

Apparently, AI agents need a social media platform to connect with one another. Thus, Moltbook was born, a Reddit-style social network exclusively for OpenClaw agents . While the powerful agentic capabilities are alluring, OpenClaw raises serious cybersecurity and privacy concerns . To be useful, the AI requires deep access to user data including login credentials to banks, billing companies, soc…

Prototyping is my favorite part of programming. I like building new stuff and getting things working. It’s no surprise, then, that I am a big fan of MongoDB and NoSQL in general. Don’t get me wrong: I’ve always appreciated SQL for what it is. The intoxicating smoothness of using MongoDB in JavaScript just swept me off my feet. Led by the dynamic PostgreSQL team, SQL has recently orchestrated an i…

OpenAI is reportedly developing a code hosting platform that could compete with Microsoft’s GitHub, a move that would put the AI company in direct competition with one of its most important partners. The idea was explored after engineers experienced service disruptions that made GitHub temporarily unavailable in recent months, according to a report from The Information . If OpenAI turns the proje…

The WebAssembly Component Model , an architecture for building interoperable WebAssembly libraries, applications, and environments, is being touted as a way to elevate Wasm beyond its current status as “a second-class language for the web.” The WebAssembly Component Model , in development since 2021, would provide critical capabilities for WebAssembly, according to a February 26 blog post from Mo…

If there’s one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it’s how they feel like magic until they don’t. One moment, you’re watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a remarkably sharp analysis of its architecture and design choices. And the next, it’s spamming the console with “ CoreCoreCoreCore ” until the scroll-back buffer fills up and you’ve run out of tokens…

For decades, web architecture has followed a familiar and frankly exhausting pattern. A dominant approach emerges, gains near-universal adoption, reveals its cracks under real-world scale, and is eventually replaced by a new “best practice” that promises to fix everything the last one broke. We saw it in the early 2000s, when server-rendered, monolithic applications were the default. We saw it ag…

I was talking about the astonishing rise of AI-assisted coding with my friend Josh recently, and he said he was going to miss the craftsmanship aspect of actually writing code. Now, I’m a big believer that software is a craft, not an engineering endeavor. The term “engineering” implies a certain amount of certainty and precision that can never be replicated in software. I’ve never been a big fan …