Welcome to my latest list of AI-related links, similar to my Q1 list and other ones. This is the first edition in which I’m including videos, discussions, and quotations that I found interesting as well.

It’s been interesting seeing engineers’ various reactions to the spread of AI into our profession. Some seems obstinately against it in any fashion whatsoever; others seem obsessive about using it for everything everywhere at all times. It’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out over time. AI will certainly not disappear. It’s a great additional tool, but I’m not all for sinking all resources into it, especially at this early stage in its availability. While I’m happy to use it at work (and I increasingly do with significant success), I still aim to limit its use in personal development to keep it interesting, educational, and fulfilling.

Disclaimer: Each link simply represents information that I felt was interesting or helpful at the time that I noted it. A link’s inclusion does not necessarily indicate agreement with its contents.

Articles

  1. Ethan Mollick: A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
  2. Mark Seemann: Programming languages for AI
  3. Shawn Wildermuth: How Intelligent is AI?
  4. Nick Chapsas: This is Why AI Could Replace Programmers (10m video)
  5. Maggie Appleton: One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment: Why we need collaborative AI engineering
  6. Tane Piper: The Man With No Brains
  7. Koshy John: A.I. Should Elevate Your Thinking, Not Replace It
  8. Maximilian Walterskirchen: Piloting Agentic Engineering—What Software Engineers Can Learn From The Aviation Industry + HN + Reddit
  9. Nilay Patel (The Verge): The People Do Not Yearn For Automation: Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying
  10. Margaret-Anne Storey: What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)
  11. Steven Langbroek: Programming Still Sucks.
  12. Zoran on C#: Claude Code Is Resurrecting Our Worst Nightmares (13m video)
  13. Nolan Lawson: Using AI to write better code more slowly
  14. MindStudio Team: Agent Harness Engineering: Why Your Wrapper Matters More Than the Model
  15. Wall Street Journal: Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets (Archive) (Found via a LinkedIn post)
  16. Ronan Berder: AI-Augmented Software Development Manifesto
  17. Owen McGrann: The Dead Economy Theory + HN
  18. Dr. Randal S. Olson: The “Are You Sure?” Problem: Why Your AI Keeps Changing Its Mind
  19. WSJ (Katherine Bindley): See How AI Giants Are Using AI in Their Own Offices

Videos

  1. NDC Conference Keynote: Richard Campbell: After the AI Hype – What’s Real, and What’s Next (50m; 2026)
  2. Zoran Horvat: AI Software Development Is Near-Impossible (13m; 2026) — includes summary of how LLMs work

Discussions

  1. Clients sending me AI snippets
  2. Things I used to be proud of doing well - Modern AI just does better
  3. How to manage the tradeoff between mental model and speed when building with AI?

Quotations

I know someone whose CEO was rolling out a new internal process and rather than simply having a meeting to explain the whole thing, he created a fake AI podcast where fake AI people discuss the new process. (Reddit)

Our job was never to write code, it was to solve people’s problems.

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