SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Cursor's latest agent-swarm experiment rebuilt a SQLite-like database from documentation and passed a held-out conformance suite. The bigger story is the shift from assigning code tasks to specifying, measuring, and governing a goal.

Armin Ronacher's The Coming Loop on agent loops versus harness loops: where loop-driven development works, where it fails, and what the HN thread adds.

Intent debt is the third layer of AI-era debt Martin Fowler describes, after technical and cognitive debt. What it is and how to diagnose it in your project.