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What are you thinking about for the new best practices for software engineering?

That's the question I'm hoping to answer as I write the rest of this guide, which I expect to take several months: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/agentic-engineering-pa...

I'm not sure anyone has a confident answer to that yet though - I certainly don't.


Simon, I'd be interested in a voice conversation with you on this topic. I've developed my own chain-of-thought system that is very different from what others are doing. Mine is a Socrate Agent that leads the developer, does not write their code, but guides them to become a better developer. It completely opposite the direction the larger industry seems to be going. Augmented synergy between the AI and developer, not the AI coding and the human overseeing.

thats almost always been the case with 3rd party human task services

Yup. I was surprised that the article author took the results at face value. Having results that match the most commonly-known AI platform's results perfectly seemed worthy of a mention!

Granite is not very good

Oracle is trying (and mostly failing) at frontier model training


"After all, if Dario Amodei had bought puts on IBM, and the dozens of companies that have plunged more than double digits in recent weeks, he would have made billions, certainly enough to fund his company for months if not years. "

Anthropic put out another blog post about modernizing/migrating away from COBOL several months ago IIRC, it is surprising that this was not priced in already

Feels like a rip from Matt Levine who has been saying the same thing for a while now.

It's not so original an idea that we need to be worrying about who came up with it, I think.

Next up:Epic and MUMPS

dark factory

it's unfortunately not just your algorithm, but the views and likes of people who match your demographic specs....

literally or figuratively?

Google Wave was launched, marketed, and killed in 2 years

Is this supposed to be evidence that Gemini is mature?

i think google meet duo is finally being deprecated in favor of another solution

https://support.google.com/meet/answer/15226472?hl=en

Google Duo was upgraded and rebranded to Google Meet in 2022. However, the legacy calling experience (previously known as Duo) was still available. Now, these legacy calls are being upgraded to Meet calls, which contain expanded features like cloud encryption, live captions, in-call chat, stackable effects, and more. To use the new Meet calling experience, update your app to the latest version. As users move over to Meet calling, some of the legacy calling features will no longer be available. In addition, any reference to what was formerly known as Duo will now show “legacy.” From September 2025, legacy calling will be replaced with Meet calling.


Terrifying cheap if you think about it

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