Software & Apps

Survey Says: You’ll swap the model, but everything you build around it is staying put

As a co-creator of Kubernetes, I spent a good chunk of my career working to protect enterprises from being...

Don’t forget about the UI for AI

ChatGPT Space is a newly launched collaborative workspace within ChatGPT and Codex that allows software engineering teams and their...

Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide

There’s a canyon between an agent that demos well and an agent you’d put in front of customers or...

AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong

Quint is an open-source, executable specification language and toolchain based on TLA+ that enables engineers to model, simulate, and...

MCP standardized tools. Now we need the infrastructure around them.

MCP adoption happened extremely fast.Developers can now connect models to repositories, databases, browsers, observability systems, internal APIs, and dozens...

Why your platform team shouldn’t build an AI context layer (even though they probably could)

Most engineering teams capable of building an internal AI knowledge system think they should. Stand up a vector database,...

Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Cory Hymel of Andela

There’s been plenty of chatter about AI’s effect on jobs. Will everyone get laid off to train AI? Will...

Designed for a Dead Language

Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a...

Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna

Today’s web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their...

Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System

“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system...

An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership

Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like...