Shift-left isn't enough any more, you need to Shift-Coding-Left! Shrink feedback loops and empower your team to build at the speed of thought.
The cognitive impact of coding agents
A fun thing about recording a podcast with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-sized short form vertical …
Scaling long-running autonomous coding · Cursor
We've been experimenting with running coding agents autonomously for weeks at a time.
Using AI to write better code more slowly
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But t…
If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership
AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.
Coding sessions in Linear – Changelog
Linear changelog - New updates and improvements to Linear.
Peter Steinberger 🦞 on Twitter / X
Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.— Peter Steinberger 🦞 (@steipete) June 7, 2026
AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye
The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.
Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop | Cognition
As code generation gets easier, code review is the new bottleneck. That's why we're launching a new way to quickly review and understand complex PRs in our latest tool for codebase understanding - augmenting human attention with AI.
Announcing: Navigating the AI Shift
Image credit: Joe Groove For a lot of people, AI started out as a net negative. You’re reviewing documents someone couldn’t be bothered to write themselves. You’re having your tim…
More pull requests, not less work - Sensemaker
Linear's telemetry shows coding agents multiplying output while planning and coordination do not shrink.
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee
This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more
Game Balance Isn't Real
Scott Jenson – Exploring the world beyond mobile
Fast AI requires slow thinking The current Silicon Valley flex is trading notes on your favorite new AI tools over lunch. Each week brings another one to explore. Some of these tools are very impressive; I’ve been able to reply to someone with an alternative UI design in less than a minute, and they were […]
Quality Wednesdays: How we trained our team to see what doesn’t work - Linear
In early 2023 at an offsite in Tenerife, our European engineering team did a series of exercises that ended up changing the way we work.
