Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
martinfowler.com — Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production.
Code agents are autonomous software systems that plan, write, and execute programming tasks across codebases. Truncated covers their tool releases, benchmark evaluations, architectural developments, and integration into developer workflows.
martinfowler.com — Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production.
The New Stack — AI makes it easier to build software. Thomas Dohmke and other tech leaders explain what still worries them about learning, safety, and access.
InfoQ — QA Agent is a new source-available Playwright library for agentic browser regression testing. The agent associates test instructions expressed in natural language to actions on the user interface, caches those when appropriate for faster CI replays, remapping them to test specifications when the user interface changes. Verification is based on multi-model consensus and vision model evaluations.
jonathannen.com — Tell someone an agent merged to production with no human in the loop and the reply is "that's not possible." Nobody is proposing the general case, so ask whether one is possible instead: mine was a minor patch bump.
Octomind — Claude worktree setup for real projects: run Claude Code, Codex and Cursor agents in parallel git worktrees without colliding .env files, ports or databases.
posthog.com — PostHog ships code at a rapid pace, and that pace has only accelerated in recent months due to LLM adoption. We went from merging 1,354 PRs in October…
XDA — This would have taken me hours to figure out
oskargroth.com — In two weeks, my AI agents made more commits to Backdrop than I had in five years. Here's the system behind it, and why I'm now the bottleneck.
InfoQ — Anthropic has published how the Claude Code team reviews code now that Claude writes roughly 90% of it, including a claim that nobody keeps a complete mental model of the codebase. The post documents a pull request that ran more than fifty review rounds overnight, a reviewer spending most of its effort on pre-existing code, and a control the team says it does not yet have.
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