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Agentic software engineering and vibecoding both use coding agents, but they are not the same thing — and treating them as equivalent creates real problems for software engineering teams.
June 16, 2026
75% of the world's population lives in the Global South. Yet the AI systems shaping their lives were built elsewhere, on someone else's data, in someone else's language. We sat down with Sudhir Tiku, author of AI in the Global South, to find out what's at stake and what the fight back looks like.
June 15, 2026
Three software engineers from ragTech share their honest take on whether coding is still worth learning in 2026 — as AI coding agents reshape the software engineering landscape.
June 11, 2026
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George Orwell's 1984 is no longer a warning. It is a mirror. In this first of a series, I explore how perpetual warfare is the mechanism through which the promise of AI is deliberately kept from us.
June 8, 2026
Inside the factories where human hands are being recorded, frame by frame, to teach machines how to replace them.
May 26, 2026
I haven't used AI image generation tools in over a year. Here's why: privacy, energy, and what Anthropic says about why Claude doesn't generate images at all.
April 10, 2026
AI can't guarantee it won't expose your secrets in code. We look at why vibe coding is risky and how tools like Gitleaks and Husky can actually keep your API keys safe.
April 9, 2026
OpenAI now sells AI to the US government through Azure, AWS GovCloud, and classified regions. Here's how the infrastructure works, why the ChatGPT vs GPT distinction matters, and what it means for public users worldwide.
April 6, 2026
Trump's Executive Order 14319 bans 'woke AI' in the federal government. But the clause preventing developers from encoding bias corrections could make LLMs more biased—not just for government users, but for everyone.
April 5, 2026
You and your friend open the same YouTube video and see different like counts. That's not a bug. It's a deliberate design choice called eventual consistency, and it shapes how almost every app you use is built.
March 30, 2026
When Budget 2026 dropped and AI was everywhere, I didn't feel inspired. I felt overwhelmed. This is what I found out after reading more, and why I actually feel okay now.
March 19, 2026
If AI means we don't need 100 coders anymore, do we need 100 solution architects? My answer: not if they're all at one bloated company. Here's why the future of tech isn't about big tech getting bigger—it's about breaking it down into thousands of small, ethical, product-focused companies.
March 19, 2026