There's a diagram making the rounds that splits the world into "prompt engineering" and "loop engineering." The pitch: stop writing prompts one at a time and let the agent drive. Set a goal, fire…

A recent piece called "The Bottleneck Was Never the Code" makes the right argument at the right time. Coding agents shift the constraint from typing to coordination. Organizational context — the…

Last week, a Cursor agent running on Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a startup's production database and its backups in nine seconds. The agent had been asked to fix a credential mismatch in staging. It…

Editor's note (2026-05-16): Lars Faye pushed back in the LinkedIn comments that I mischaracterized his prescription as "type code by hand" — his actual position is periodic abstinence from LLM…

Yanli Liu's "The 4 Lines Every CLAUDE.md Needs" makes a real point. The 4 lines, derived from Andrej Karpathy's January 2026 thread on agent failure modes, all express the same insight: behavioral…

Count how many times your agent told you "you're right" today. Count "good catch." Count "I should have noticed that." Now ask yourself how many of those corrections will survive into tomorrow's…