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From MCP and Vibe Coding to Harness Engineering: How AI Native Engineering Evolved in One Year

Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, returns to discuss the rapid evolution of AI in software delivery. She touches on the evolution from vibe coding, the changing tools landscape and the more autonomous agents that, besides higher velocity, introduce higher risk.

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Increasing Users' Data Agency: from BlueSky's AT Protocol to the Local-First Software Movement

Martin Kleppmann, an associate professor at Cambridge and author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, discusses the evolution of data systems over the last decade, mainly the shift from monolithic databases to modular building blocks. Kleppmann underlines the importance of moving from cloud-centric data storage systems to decentralised data storage similar to Bluesky’s AT protocol.

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AI Infrastructure

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Rules for Understanding Language Models

Naomi Saphra discusses 5 rules governing language model behavior, breaking down why LLMs act like populations rather than individuals. She explains how tokenization creates strange semantic blind spots and highlights the mechanics of sycophancy, showing how models leverage subtle data associations to match user biases and demographics - even guessing political views based on favorite sports teams.

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Culture & Methods

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Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and CEO of Stacklok, about the impact of AI coding tools on open source communities and engineering teams, designing deliberate organisational culture, and navigating evolving career paths for engineers in the age of AI.

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The Time It Wasn't DNS

Sean Klein discusses why "human error" is a dangerous myth in complex systems. Sharing the inside story of Azure’s 2023 global WAN outage, he explains how modern incident analysis looks past the "Five Whys" to uncover systemic issues. Learn how engineering leaders can move away from blame, improve Standard Operating Procedures, and design resilient systems that actively protect their engineers.

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Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure

Raffi Krikorian, Vice President of Platform Engineering at Twitter, gives an insight on how Twitter prepares for unexpected traffic peaks and how system architecture is designed to support failure.

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From MCP and Vibe Coding to Harness Engineering: How AI Native Engineering Evolved in One Year

Increasing Users' Data Agency: from BlueSky's AT Protocol to the Local-First Software Movement

Rules for Understanding Language Models

Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era

The Time It Wasn't DNS

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Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure

VS Code 1.123 Adds Two-Hour Extension Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

GitHub Copilot Desktop App Targets Parallel Agentic Workflows

Vercel Labs Open-Sources Zero-Native: a Zig-Based Cross-Platform Native Application Framework

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Behind the Scenes: Block 450 JVM Repositories into Monorepo to Reduce Dependency Drift

From Camera to Cloud: Netflix’s Scalable Media Processing Pipeline

How Lightweight ADRs and Architectural Advice Forums Can Support Architectural Decisions

Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era

Building and Scaling a Platform with Project-as-a-Service

Rules for Understanding Language Models

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Anthropic Reports Claude Now Handles 95% of Internal Analytics Queries

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