Two critical PHP flaws put the web on alert as emergency patches arrive
Organizations are scrambling to protect themselves following the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in commonly used code that powers much of the internet. The flaws discovered in the PHP scripting language could allow at...
Eight reasons coding agents are better than software developers
I can’t stop anthropomorphizing my coding agent. I use both Claude Code and Cursor, and whenever I talk about these tools, I always refer to them as “he”, as in “He found and fixed a bug I never even realized existed.” The rea...
Using model routing to lower inference costs
Running frontier models for coding and other purposes can be very expensive, but also, sometimes, very effective. It’s tempting to use smaller or older models instead of frontier models because they’re cheaper, although they may ...
Eight reasons coding agents are better than you
I can’t stop anthropomorphizing my coding agent. I use both Claude Code and Cursor, and whenever I talk about these tools, I always refer to them as “he”, as in “He found and fixed a bug I never even realized existed.” The rea...
How AI is changing software pricing
In 2026, the AI monetization conversation has shifted quickly from one concern to the next. Early in the year, fears that AI agents would erode software seats helped trigger a selloff of software stocks dubbed the “SaaSpocalypse....
US bans DeepSeek across federal agencies, putting AI supply chains under scrutiny
DeepSeek has been dealt a huge blow in the US, even as it continues to innovate and keep pace with, or in some cases outperform, rival models from American labs. The US Secretary of Homeland Security has issued an order bannin...
When ‘access denied’ becomes an agent’s next objective
One line from a recent AI incident caught my attention. Describing how an OpenAI agent got into a Medicare statistics portal, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it “didn’t accept no for an answer.” It sounds almos...
The local computing rebellion
Take a close look at your monthly software bills. The charges that once seemed small and separate can add up to a new kind of dependency: subscriptions for word processing, creative tools, storage, and now AI features bundled int...
Enterprise AI needs more than an AI engineer
Anthropic has a $100 million plan to help enterprises get more from AI. No, it doesn’t involve agents. It involves people. Lots of people. How retro. On October 2, the company announced Claude Frontier Academy, with a goal...
From pilots to production: The four disciplines that make generative AI work
This series lays out a practical framework for taking generative AI (GenAI) from pilots to dependable production systems in the enterprise. It focuses on four disciplines that determine long-term success: engineering for scale an...