October 2026

Planted October 13, 2026

Welcome to our first monthly digest. The idea is to share links that our community finds interesting or at least notable. Feedback is always really appreciated and if you have something to share, please don’t hesitate.

🧰 1. The Good, Old-Fashioned Software Craftsmanship

• Designing agentic delivery for bounded context and bounded human attention: Thoughtworks gives some insights into what matters when using agentic development. Sounds easy, but agents and humans don’t have infinite resources.

• Impatient Programming: XP is dead, long live to XP! In 1999 Don Wells wrote the 26 rules of Extreme Programming, but what has changed in 2026 when typing is nearly free? ZAR is trying to answer with stories from the trenches.

• Why are good developers so wary of agentic development: Rachel Laycock tries to understand the reluctant side of coding agents.

🧠 2. Learn from Someone Who Actually Knows Their Stuff

• Spec-Driven Development with ATDD & AI: Valentina Jemuović explains in practice how to manage the code produced by an AI.

• Agentic Engineering and Architectural Risk: Ian Cooper shares some thoughts about the real risks in software development in the Agentic Era.

• Amazon Vs Software Engineers: Gergely Orosz underlines how Amazon is shifting from Software Engineering to Product Engineering.

🌍 3. Everyone’s Fired. AI’s Picking Up the Tab

• Microsoft layoffs: MSFT is giving an Exit Offer to employees who voluntarily decide to leave.

• The compiler was supposed to end programming too: Hatim Rih reminds us that from time to time some new technology tries to eliminate the role of Software Engineer

🛠️ 4. From the Workshop

• Open Code Review: Alibaba shared an AI-powered code review CLI tool

• Eezo a new Scala Framework: Daniel Ciocîrlan and Riccardo Cardin shared a new Scala framework inspired by frameworks like Phoenix and Django

😄 5. Just for fun

• eMudhra disaster shitposting wave: comments are unnecessary