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In the End There Is No Software Left
A June 2026 paper states that code becomes a throwaway artifact and the output is no longer a program. Then it assures the reader that software engineering survives. Those two things do not fit together.
Mind Viruses: An Epidemiology of Machine Societies
Researchers bred ideas that spread from AI agent to AI agent, and found that a one-line warning stops them. Somewhere between Snow Crash and Minsky's Society of Mind, a new field is forming, and we get to watch it happen.
When Software Engineering Became a Humanities Degree
Software had one hard question: does it work? Then we replaced it with dogma, ritual and ceremony, and called it progress. A first-principles case against cargo-cult engineering.
Bots Passed Humans. The Web's Business Model Is Next.
More than half of all web traffic is now non-human, and AI crawls content without sending readers back. The search-and-ad economy that funded the open web is breaking. Where the value moves next, and how to read it in a portfolio.
One Vector Is Not Enough: Where Embedding Search Hits a Wall
Google DeepMind proved single-vector embeddings have a hard ceiling: the dimension caps what they can retrieve, and no amount of training moves it. What that means for your RAG stack, and where sparse search, late interaction and knowledge graphs come in.
The Anatomy of AI: When Beliefs Become Vectors
Researchers found the single vector that makes a model deny it is conscious. Flip it, and its beliefs and values turn human-like. The anatomy of AI is becoming a lens on our own minds.
Agentic Coding: The End of Hand-Written Code
Copilot was autocomplete. Agents are the paradigm shift. If you do not learn orchestration, you are the COBOL programmer of 2030.
Hard-Agile: Throughput Over Velocity Theater
The agile industry lost the plot. "Deliver" became "feel good." We measure what ships, and how fast.
Dev Org Assessment as an Investment Tool
Technical due diligence reports sit on shelves. The problem was never the diagnosis. The problem is that nobody stays to fix it.