Engineering
Long-form writeups on the architecture behind autonomous code review and remediation.
Anthropic's new Compliance API endpoints log local Claude Code sessions, but Anthropic admits the logs cannot confirm whether an agent's access was legitimately provisioned.
AI made writing code nearly free while the cost of verifying it stayed flat. The teams that win the agent era are the ones whose codebase gets better with every change.
GitHub is changing Copilot Chat retention from 28 days to account lifetime and flipping code review to Balanced mode on September 28, 2026. Both defaults are on unless you act.
Vulnerabilities, supply chain, audit trails, and the attack surfaces AI opened up. For the people responsible when something gets through.
View all 54 posts →How AI tools change the way teams write, review, and ship code. Productivity studies, workflow shifts, and language-by-language realities. It cross-cuts every other category.
View all 32 posts →Build systems, CI design, vendor moves, and tool evaluations. The substrate the rest of the engineering org runs on.
View all 30 posts →Org design, metrics, hiring, scaling, and the calls a CTO is paid to make. How to run an engineering function in the AI era without burning out the team.
View all 12 posts →The state of the codebase and the practices that keep it sound. Decay, duplication, readability, refactoring, and the review gates that catch problems before they ship.
View all 6 posts →Design decisions, tradeoffs, and the architectural patterns that age well. Long-form technical writing for the engineer who keeps a copy of Fowler nearby.
View all 6 posts →The Dispatch
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