Month: June 2026
AI: Monolith and Microservices
Jaroslaw Wasowski argues that many companies are moving away from microservices and back toward larger, more organized systems. He says microservices were mainly created to help human teams handle complexity, not because they are always technically better. In the age of AI coding agents, this changes because agents need clear context to understand and change […]
10-80-10 rule in AI
Jessica Stillman explains that Steve Jobs’ 10-80-10 rule is still useful in the age of AI. She describes how Jobs changed from a micromanager into a leader who gave teams more freedom. The rule means that leaders should spend the first 10 percent setting a clear direction. Then people, or AI tools, can do about […]
What happens with software vendors?
Marco Kotrotsos argues that many simple software products are becoming easier to replace with AI-built tools.He explains that he used Claude to create his own dithering app instead of immediately buying a commercial one. Kotrotsos says this pattern is already happening in many areas, where people and companies replace paid software with custom AI-made solutions. […]
Agentic Engineering
Attila Vágó explains that AI can make software development much faster, but it also brings new challenges.He says that messy old code often leads to messy AI-generated code. Engineers now have to make many more decisions when reviewing AI work, which can become exhausting.Vágó also warns that teams cannot simply trust AI tools without strong […]