OpenAI connects the Dots

Casey Newton’s hands-on take on OpenAI’s Dots agents at DevDay: capable coworking inside ChatGPT, paid-only positioning versus Meta Muse, and the trust/safety tradeoffs of always-on agents.

Opinion · AI Agents · Opinion · LLMs · Productivity

The AI-Enhanced App

Natasha Murashev argues that adding AI to a product should not mean a chat box: agent workflows, on-device prediction, and TTS can stay invisible while the existing UI simply works better for non-AI-native users.

Opinion · AI · Product · Product Management · User Experience

The Problem is not the AI Code, but Nobody Knows Anything Anymore

Simon Späti argues the real risk of AI-written codebases is not mediocre generated code, but teams that lose architecture knowledge and intent because everyone just asks the model.

Opinion · AI · Software Engineering · Opinion · AI Agents

The Bottleneck Moved From Writing Code to Proving It

AI made writing code cheap; the scarce work is now proving it. A practitioner essay on verification as the new bottleneck for agent systems and engineering teams.

Opinion · AI · Programming · Opinion · AI Agents

Everybody's Lost Their Minds

A systems engineer's rant about AI-agent hype, broken email, and how people without engineering background are shipping half-baked 'industry changing' ideas from agent-infested homelabs.

Opinion · AI Agents · Opinion · Engineering Leadership · Security

The agentic passive voice.Original article link with an AI-written directory summary

A short essay about taking responsibility for work produced with AI tools. Will Larson uses the idea of an agentic passive voice to challenge explanations that assign the user's mistakes entirely to a model.

Opinion · AI Agents · Accountability