artificial intelligence

For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a really good developer experience for it2. A couple of weeks ago, after ~250 hours of effort over three months3 on evenings, weekends, and vacation days, I finally released syntaqlite (GitHub), fulfilling this long-held wish. And I believe the main reason this happened was because of AI coding agents4. Of course, there’s no shortage of posts claiming that AI one-shot their project or pushing back and declaring that AI...

Everyone's worried about slop, but good code will prevail, not only because we want it to, but because economic forces demand it.

On the debt without authorship, why "Lines of Code" is now a dangerous metric, and how to survive the hangover

The push to replace software engineers isn't always a technical prediction. Sometimes it's a reaction to the leverage we hold.

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

Everyone online says AI agents are printing money in 2026. So where are the real receipts? We investigated Mac Minis, OpenClaw setups, and the uncomfortable truth.

Is your vibe-coded app a Crapject or a Gift?

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Test and harden your AI prompts with our intelligent fuzzer. This free fuzzing engine uses evolutionary fuzzing techniques to identify vulnerabilities and improve AI app security.

Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.

I asked Claude Code to remove Jquery. It failed miserably. - Thursday, 12 February 2026 - Alex's blog'

We're not in a February 2020 moment, and ordinary people will be fine

As software development shifts from requiring specialized skills—built on multiple layers of technical understanding—to describing intent in plain English (or your language of choice), the act of producing software appears to become accessible to a much wider audience. The people best positioned to excel may not be well versed in software at all, but rather those who are good at expressing ideas clearly, thinking iteratively, and breaking problems down.

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

A friend of mine recently attended an open forum panel about how engineering orgs can better support their engineers. The themes that came up were not surprising:

My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I've necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of workflow and life-altering discovery.

Second brain for everyone who just can't get by with one - benjaminshoemaker/notes_brain

A short intro for designers on making interactive SVGs with AI help.

We're barely a week into 2026, and tech Twitter is already ablaze with discussion of the "Ralph...