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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Modern software engineering - debt, testing, code review, and the shifts AI is bringing to the craft.
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Cursor's SQLite Swarm Is a Test of Goal-Driven 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.
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Armin Ronacher on The Coming Loop and Why Agent-Driven Code Still Needs Human Comprehension
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.
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Intent Debt: The AI-Era Debt Nobody Is Tracking
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.
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