blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/… Using Artificial Intelligence to reverse engineer hardware After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found…

addyo.substack.com/p/agentic… Agentic Verification The bottleneck moved from writing code to knowing it’s correct.

infoq.com/news/2026/09/googl… Google Open-Sources AX a Kubernetes Style Orchestrator for Autonomous AI Agents Google has open-sourced AX, an orchestrator designed for managing autonomous AI agent workloads. AX operates on a runtime, Agent Substrate, treating agents as stateful…

infoq.com/articles/agent-har… The Agent Harness: What it is and Two Ways to Build One This article explains the development and operational layers of an agent harness through two implementations of a finance assistant: AWS AgentCore Harness and LangChain with Envoy AI Gateway. It…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… 3 AI Interaction Styles: Turn-Taking, Task Agents, Always-On jakobnielsenphd.substack.com In under 4 years, AI has acquired 3 interaction styles: Turn-Taking AI answers the questions you ask, Task Agents finish the jobs you assign, and Always-on Agents fill…

skills.wheresryan.sh/anatomy Anatomy · A skill for Claude Code A Claude skill that draws an idea as the real machine that does it: a live isometric figure you can turn, press and read.

infoq.com/news/2026/10/react… React 19.3: Adds a browser() API, Giving Client-Only Rendering a First-Class Name React 19.3 was released on September 9, introducing several features including the react-dom browser() API. This API allows components to opt out of server-side rendering…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… UX Roundup: CAPTCHA | Undo | Robotaxi Safety | Better Usability for Educational AI | Scrolljacking | Floating Action Button | Long Forms | Secondary vs. Primary Features | Picture Superiority Too easy to fail CAPTCHA verification…

ghuntley.com/replaced/ if your team is too busy doing their 'normal job' to experiment with AI, you're preparing them to be replaced When Ralph was published last year, I sat on it. People who have been reading this blog for a while know this. I first came across the idea of…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… UX Roundup: Erik the Red | AI Thematic Analysis | Nano Banana 2.1 | Scrolling | Fast Asymptote in AI Skills | Average Users | Wishlists | Usability Testing Without Findings | Naming Consistency How Erik the Red discovered Greenland | AI now codes user…

ivokund.com/first-look-at-cl… First look at Claude Code mods (spoiler: yes, use one now!) I have to say I was sceptical at first. "Mods" – we already had hooks, right, so what can be so special? I'm not going to retell what mods can do. Nor do I recommend reading through the manual.…

infoq.com/news/2026/10/clef-… Cloudflare Open Sources Decision Models for AI Agents During its recent “Birthday Week”, Cloudflare announced Clef, a set of open-weight AI models designed to choose between predefined options rather than generate text. Cloudflare released 9B- and…

infoq.com/news/2026/06/ai-pr… AI Is Moving up the Software Lifecycle: from Code Review to PRD Governance Technology companies are extending AI beyond code generation into earlier stages of the software lifecycle, including PRD validation, design inputs, and code review. Initiatives…

infoq.com/news/2026/08/AI-di… 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…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… Behavioral Economics & UX: Design for Irrational Humans People don’t decide the way classical economics assumes. They take mental shortcuts and follow seemingly irrational rules that were tuned for survival in the Paleolithic, not for pricing pages…

developers.openai.com/api/do… Decisions | OpenAI API Use the Decisions API to check conditions, select from fixed options, and score text and images against a rubric.

newsletter.pragmaticengineer… The state of the tech industry in 2026 A look into what has changed, what’s still the same – and what’s broken – in the tech industry. The full video and the summary of my keynote at LDX3 New York

infoq.com/news/2026/10/googl… Flagged by the Machine: How Google Ads Suspended an Open-Source macOS Term as Malicious Przemyslaw Alexander Kaminski created RACE, a Rust terminal multiplexer on an infinite canvas that detaches child shells into background processes. When he launched…

infoq.com/news/2026/10/istio… Istio 1.31 Adds Agentgateway Waypoints and Moves Release Artifacts off Google Cloud Istio 1.31 adds agentgateway waypoints in ambient mode, with a canary configuration fix included in 1.31.1. It also ends the publication of images and Helm charts to…

infoq.com/news/2026/10/opena… OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap for Developers OpenAI announced a series of product and developer updates at DevDay 2026, including GPT-6.1 Sol, computer use for the Agents API, cloud-based Codex environments, a Decisions API, and new plugin…