Building software
Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat
Ryan chats with the GM of Slack, Rob Seaman, about how their new Code Channels feature is bringing multiplayer AI to your team chats.
Java’s age is its AI superpower
Ryan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java.
Dispatches from O'Reilly: The right amount of spec for agentic development
When code gets cheap, the hard part is deciding what “correct” means and building a reliable way to check it.
Dispatches from O'Reilly: The best risk mitigation strategy in data? A single source of truth
Your semantic layer is a risk mitigation strategy. Not risk in the abstract, compliance-framework sense, but the practical, operational risk that quietly drains organizations every day.
Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
The tools themselves are new and their capabilities are in constant flux. If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it every time; that’s a hard tool to build trust in. But it also points to a flaw in how you use that tool, the process around it, and the way the tool reinforces the process.
