AI Article Roundup: 2026 Q2
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 and discussions that I found interesting as well.
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
- Ethan Mollick: A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
- Mark Seemann: Programming languages for AI
- Shawn Wildermuth: How Intelligent is AI?
- Nick Chapsas: This is Why AI Could Replace Programmers (10m video)
- Maggie Appleton: One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment: Why we need collaborative AI engineering
- Tane Piper: The Man With No Brains
- Koshy John: A.I. Should Elevate Your Thinking, Not Replace It
- Maximilian Walterskirchen: Piloting Agentic Engineering—What Software Engineers Can Learn From The Aviation Industry + HN + Reddit
- Nilay Patel (The Verge): The People Do Not Yearn For Automation: Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying
- Margaret-Anne Storey: What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)
- Steven Langbroek: Programming Still Sucks.
- Zoran on C#: Claude Code Is Resurrecting Our Worst Nightmares (13m video)
- Nolan Lawson: Using AI to write better code more slowly
- MindStudio Team: Agent Harness Engineering: Why Your Wrapper Matters More Than the Model
- Wall Street Journal: Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets (Archive) (Found via a LinkedIn post)
- Ronan Berder: AI-Augmented Software Development Manifesto
- Owen McGrann: The Dead Economy Theory + HN
- Dr. Randal S. Olson: The “Are You Sure?” Problem: Why Your AI Keeps Changing Its Mind
- WSJ (Katherine Bindley): See How AI Giants Are Using AI in Their Own Offices
Videos
- NDC Conference Keynote: Richard Campbell: After the AI Hype – What’s Real, and What’s Next (50m; 2026)
- Zoran Horvat: AI Software Development Is Near-Impossible (13m; 2026) — includes summary of how LLMs work
Discussions
- Clients sending me AI snippets
- Things I used to be proud of doing well - Modern AI just does better
- How to manage the tradeoff between mental model and speed when building with AI?