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Developer behind the AI-Built Adobe Clones Says They Are “Not Anywhere Close to Ready"
A developer used Claude Opus 5.5 to build open-source replacements for seven Adobe applications, promoted them across Reddit with a projection of roughly 100% parity within a month, then told Hacker News the project was not anywhere close to ready. Its own roadmap puts it at 45% ready for real work and 2,300 to 4,100 agent-hours from full parity.
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Optimizing Software Workflow: Exploring Fundamental Impacts in Technology
Software only has value when shipped; faster release cadence matters. Development, deployment, and operations require different thinking, metrics, and investments. There are four impacts in tech: product success, compute capacity, engineering capacity, and strategic innovation. The biggest expense is people. AI shifts engineers toward deeper problem understanding, not fewer engineers.
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Backstage 1.55 Adds Scaffolder Task Recovery and Removes Deprecated Catalog APIs
Backstage 1.55 adds opt-in recovery for Software Template tasks, resuming crashed or timed-out runs from the last completed step. The release also carries breaking changes to the catalog, search and TechDocs, so teams should review their configuration before upgrading to the current 1.55.3 patch.
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How to Develop Software Engineering Skills in the Age of AI
Software engineering skill development requires slowing down. Generative AI has changed the landscape of skill development for software engineering. Tools and AI can accelerate outcomes, but they may not support skill development. Engineers must understand how systems work to learn things. Senior developers can coach juniors by using learning techniques.
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InfoQ Online Cohorts Address AI Security and Coding Agent Verification
A look at two InfoQ online certification cohorts covering security and privacy decisions in production AI systems and the verification needed when coding agents work in existing codebases.
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InfoQ Launches High-Performing Teams Certification Program
InfoQ has opened enrollment for a new five-week certification program covering engineering team design, delivery flow, AI-enabled work, and metrics, facilitated by InfoQ editor and podcast co-host Olimpiu Pop.
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Building a Collaborative Platform Culture in a Bank
A platform is a collaboration system, not infrastructure. Culture follows structure: platform teams can build open support sessions, create super user awards for contributing developers, and establish shared open standards to grow an engineering mindset. Developers and product teams depend on a platform team, which in turn depends on application teams; to go forward, they need shared standards.
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Building an Internal Developer Platform with Artificial Intelligence
Agents are becoming the new developer platform, using semantic search with data from tools like Git, Slack, and Jira for context. Things to consider are setting guardrails to block or allow things, and using logs, metrics, and traces to understand agent behavior.
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Beyond Autonomous Teams in Software Product Development
Autonomous teams are an article of faith in modern software development. The shape of our value determines what we can do; it determines our trade-offs between agency and coherence. We all have a purpose, and we all have agency to do something, hence the suggestion is moving from product focus to value center thinking.
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Rigorous Yet Sustainable Human Reviews in the AI Era
Mandatory AI checks paired with manual spikes for complex changes keep developers sharp. Teams can boost velocity by skipping peer reviews on low-risk PRs and using AI approvals, provided most developers are code owners and teams are small.
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InfoQ previews the September Cohorts of its Online Certification Programs
A preview of the September cohorts of the InfoQ Online Certification Programs, and the facilitators leading them: Luca Mezzalira, Michelle Brush, Zichuan Xiong, and Premanand Chandrasekaran.
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How to Make Testing More Sustainable
By using a sustainable testing strategy, you can skip unnecessary tests, ensure failing fast and early, and only run tests affected by code changes. Tracking energy use per test and using static code analysis can help spot inefficiencies and guide optimization efforts.
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InfoQ Opens Enrollment for New AI-Assisted Engineering Online Certification Program
InfoQ has opened enrollment for the InfoQ Certified AI-Assisted Engineering Program, a five-week online certification program for senior engineers and architects who already run a coding agent against production code daily, where the open questions have moved past prompting into what the agent is allowed to touch and what catches its mistakes before a human does.
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How Code in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Becomes Write-Only and Disposable
Artificial intelligence (AI) makes all code write-only,. It’s too dense to read, and tests define the behaviour and become the documentation. Code is also disposable; it becomes easier to rewrite than to debug. Humans can't review AI-generated code at scale. Intent decouples from implementation; developers should focus on creativity.
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How Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Engineering Progression
AI is disrupting career progression by eliminating the learning opportunities at each rung while simultaneously enabling people to perform above their experience level, Alasdair Allan explained in his talk Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle at QCon London. Fewer junior developers join the industry, and AI slows hiring at the entry level.