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- Software Engineering Daily
AI Regulation and What Every Tech Company Should Know
The rapid rise of AI has set off a flurry of legal and regulatory activity. There is no single AI law to follow. Instead, there are overlapping circles of…
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Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
Over the past couple of years, companies raced to get their employees using AI, often encouraging them to lean on it as much as possible. However, as AI coding…
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Blitzy and Autonomous Software Development for Enterprise
Codebases in enterprise organizations often span hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of lines of code. In many cases, changes must follow established…
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Physical AI at NVIDIA
In recent years, the main impact of AI has been on the digital world, and most notably software engineering. However, its longer-term effect on the physical…
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Software Verification in the Age of Coding Agents
Software testing is widely understood as essential to building reliable systems, and it’s one of the hardest things to get right. A fundamental issue is…
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SED News: Jev, Meta’s Muse, and the AI Slowdown Paradox
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software…
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Steve Jobs in Exile
The popular story of Steve Jobs is that he co-founded Apple, was pushed out, wandered through a failed venture called NeXT, then returned to save the company…
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Security in the Age of Instant Exploits
In the world of software security, there was historically a comfortable lag between the moment a vulnerability became public and the moment attackers could…
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The State of Browser Testing
Automated browser testing is a foundational technology that many web developers rely on. Modern tooling lets a single test drive Chrome, Firefox, and Safari…
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Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist, and a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is the author…
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Chroma and Agentic Retrieval
Data retrieval is a fundamental challenge in AI systems, and the approaches for solving it are still evolving. Vector search was an early answer to the…
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Scaling Time-Series Workloads on Postgres
Many real-world processes produce data as a continuous stream rather than as isolated records. Sensor readings, financial markets, and application telemetry…
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Scaling Agent Workloads at Vercel
Most AI agent setups today are built around a single session, where one user interacts with one agent at a time. However, that model breaks down when an agent…
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Inside Google’s Database Infrastructure for the AI Era
Historically, databases were responsible for storing data and returning exact results in response to queries. However, AI is now bending that contract in a new…
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A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems
A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems Building software that runs across many machines is notoriously difficult. Developers have to grapple with…
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SED News: The NVIDIA-Hugging Face Deal, China’s Proxy Economy, the Open Weight Surge
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software…
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Moving Beyond RAG with Precomputed Context
Retrieval has become one of the central problems in building useful AI systems. The standard approach to grounding a model in one’s own data has been…
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The Death of Online Anonymity
Age verification is reshaping how people access the internet. An ever-growing patchwork of laws can now require government IDs, facial age estimation, or…
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TypeScript 7 and What Comes Next
TypeScript is a programming language that builds on JavaScript by adding a system of types. Those types let developers describe the shape of their data and…
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The Gap Between AI Spending and AI Value
It is widely reported that a gap has emerged between enterprise spending on AI and the durable value captured from that spend. Individual employees have…
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AI and the New Global Security Landscape
The conversation about AI often focuses on software, automation, and the race between attackers and defenders in code. However, some of the most consequential…
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How LLMs Are Reshaping Recommendation Systems
News feeds and recommendation systems have long relied on deep learning architectures that score each candidate item independently. As LLMs have matured, they…
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Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent Code
For two decades, the cloud has been shaped by human developers writing code and managing its deployment. Now a growing share of production code is generated by…
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SED News: The Kimi Moment, Runaway AI, and Tokenmaxxing
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software…
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The Terminal as an Agentic Interface
The terminal has been a constant in software development for decades. It has remained largely unchanged while everything around it transformed. However, as AI…
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AI-Powered Threats to the Software Supply Chain
Open source software underpins virtually every modern application. That ubiquity is a superpower for developers, but it is also an expanding attack surface…
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Docker and Sandboxing AI Agents
The most useful coding agents can mutate their environments by downloading packages, writing files, and connecting to services across the network. However…
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The Startup Scene in Southeast Asia
Golden Gate Ventures is one of Southeast Asia’s most established early-stage venture firms, having backed companies across the region since 2011. They…
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NanoClaw and the Rise of Personal AI Agents
AI agents have shown remarkable potential to function as persistent digital assistants that are capable of monitoring data, managing communications, and taking…
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Agentic DevOps at AWS
AI agents have become capable of reasoning across large amounts of data, calling tools, and taking sequences of actions autonomously. These qualities make them…
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AURA and Open-Source Agents for Production Operations
AI agents have transformed how software gets written, but the operational side of running software in production has not yet experienced a similar revolution…
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Eric Ries on Why Good Companies Go Bad
Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup method and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, which transformed how a generation of…
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SED News: Restricted Models, IDE Wars, and the DeepMind Mafia
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software…
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Grafana’s Approach to AI-Native Observability
Advanced software systems have long been more complex than any single engineer can fully understand. Observability is the established solution to this problem…
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Building Software That People Love
Building great software always involves technical problem solving, but the best software goes beyond function. It feels fluid, coherent, and genuinely fun to…
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Mina the Hollower
Yacht Club Games is the studio behind the acclaimed Shovel Knight franchise. Their latest release is Mina the Hollower, which is a top-down action RPG inspired…
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Foundation Models for Structured Data
Predictive modeling is a core element in modern systems, and powers capabilities such as fraud detection, loan approvals, and recommendation systems. These…
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Biome and the Future of JavaScript Tooling
Modern web development requires an ever-growing collection of tools including formatters, linters, bundlers, and plugins. Each tool typically has its own…
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Preparing for Q-Day
Most of the cryptography securing the internet today rests on mathematical problems that classical computers cannot solve in any reasonable timeframe. That…
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Developing Multiplayer Games in Godot
Multiplayer games are among the hardest software systems to build, requiring developers to synchronize state across unreliable networks while maintaining…
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SED News: Apple’s AI Problem, The Real Business Model of AI, and Token Cost Reckoning
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software…
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Web Native Game Development
The web has quietly become one of the most capable platforms for game development. Advances in WebAssembly, WebGL, and WebGPU have given developers tools that…
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The Hardware Bottleneck AI Can’t Fix
Software engineering has developed powerful tools for observability, data management, and continuous testing, but hardware engineering has largely not kept…
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Autonomous Drone Delivery at Scale
Autonomous drone delivery has long been the stuff of science fiction, but ongoing advances have moved the space from experimental to operational. Zipline is…
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The European Startup Scene
Europe’s startup ecosystem is maturing rapidly, with companies like Revolut, Lovable, and Legora demonstrating that world-class technology businesses can…
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React Native at Scale
React Native is an open source framework developed by Meta that allows engineers to build mobile applications for both iOS and Android using a single…
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Formal Methods as Agent Guardrails
Formal methods are a branch of mathematics and computer science focused on proving the correctness of systems, and they have long promised a more rigorous…
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Open Source Sustainability
Open source software underpins nearly every modern application, including frameworks powering the most popular websites, to the libraries securing financial…
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Vespa AI and Surpassing the Limits of Vector Search
Vector search has risen to become a foundational tool in modern search and retrieval systems, including the RAG pipelines that power many AI applications…
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SED News: Anthropic’s Mythos, Supply Chain Hacks, and the AI Spending Surge
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software…
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SmartBear and Multi-Agent QA
AI coding tools have dramatically accelerated the pace of development, and the bottleneck in the software development lifecycle has shifted to code validation…
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The Ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems
Artificial intelligence is transforming warfare faster than the legal and ethical frameworks designed to govern it. Militaries around the world are deploying…
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Open-Weight AI Models
Open-weight models are AI systems whose trained parameters are publicly released, which allows developers to run, fine-tune, and deploy them independently…
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Hype and Reality of the AI Coding Shift
AI coding tools have gone from novelty to core infrastructure in under three years. Today, many devs use AI daily, a substantial share of new code is…
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Unlocking the Data Layer for Agentic AI with Simba Khadder
AI agents are increasingly capable of reasoning and performing autonomous work over long periods. However, as agents take on more complex, longer-horizon…
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Agentic Mesh with Eric Broda
AI agents are evolving from individual productivity tools into distributed systems components inside enterprises. The next frontier is coming into focus, and…
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New Relic and Agentic DevOps with Nic Benders
Observability emerged from the need to understand complex software systems, and involves tracking metrics, logs, and traces so engineers can detect and…
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Mobile App Security with Ryan Lloyd
Mobile apps have become a primary interface for critical services, including banking, payments, and healthcare. Unlike web applications, much of the logic and…
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FastMCP with Adam Azzam and Jeremiah Lowin
The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, gives developers a common way to expose tools, data, and capabilities to large language models, and it has quickly become…
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SED News: OpenCode, AI Code vs. Shipped Code, and the LiteLLM Breach
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software…