Developers, Your Next Customer Is an AI Agent
Apify's community of creators earns about $2m a month by building tools for AI agents. Here is what the CEO says it takes to make tools agents will actually use.
Dan Maher from Datadog Says AI Agent Reliability Is an Engineering Problem, Not a Model Choice
The Senior Technical Advocate and Researcher at Datadog explained what actually determines whether an AI agent is trustworthy.
We Fed Years of Support Queries to an AI, Hoping It Becomes Our Best Support Engineer
Our senior support engineers take years to learn which of thousands of records actually matter when a client call drops. We tried to shortcut that with an AI agent, and the key was how we built its memory.
How WiredTiger Cache Dirty Pages and Eviction Can Throttle Your MongoDB Writes
My MongoDB primary started throttling writes with every secondary healthy, and the cause was hiding in a cache most of us never look at.
Jensen Huang’s Advice to Young Developers: “Become the World’s Best User of AI”
Nvidia's CEO says young people shouldn't fear AI taking their jobs. They should learn to use it to do things they couldn't do before.
MotherDuck CEO Says Single-Node Analytics Can Outperform Distributed Systems
Jordan Tigani, MotherDuck CEO, argues that many analytics teams are paying a complexity tax for workloads that never needed it.
You Shouldn’t Trust AI Agents in Production
Because AI agents are probabilistic and can't be trusted on their own, developers need to build layered safeguards around them, and the cost of running them in production deserves as much attention as safety.
How to Review a 1,000+ File PR Without Losing Your Mind
The scariest part of a 1,186-file PR is how quickly 15% coverage can start to feel like a thorough review.
Two Years Later, I Know What I Got Wrong About Typed Domain Errors and What I’d Keep
This is a personal engineering essay, not a blueprint. I don’t know what the perfect service architecture looks like, and I won’t pretend I do. I’m not trying to sell this approach, I just want to share what I learned, in case it helps someone else avoid a few wrong turns.
Todoist Founder: Developers Should Focus on Solving Customer Problems
I spoke with Todoist founder and CEO Amir Salihefendic about where developers and founders can find opportunities and what they should focus on next.
At NVIDIA, “Senior Software Engineer” Can Mean Three Different Levels
NVIDIA’s career ladder isn’t linear, and it’s pretty hard to make sense of from the outside. I did some digging and asked around, so you don’t have to.
Chris Davidson, Atlassian: “Ask AI to Challenge You”
As a Solutions Engineer at Atlassian, Chris Davidson works with clients in an effort to make the most of Atlassian's tools and has first-hand experience of how we adapt to using AI.
I Talk to Production Every Morning. It Talks Back.
A lot of people are leaving software engineering because agent-based workflows killed their joy. I don't have that problem; I never liked the job in the first place.