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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 new essay explores the tension between letting AI agents loop autonomously and maintaining the engineering comprehension that makes software maintainable. The Hacker News discussion adds practical caveats worth reading.
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Intent Debt: The AI-Era Debt Nobody Is Tracking
Martin Fowler reframes AI-era debt into three layers - technical, cognitive, and intent. The third one is the one most teams are silently accumulating. Here is what it is and how to diagnose it.
8 min read
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