- Pillars

On the Hubble Space Telescope, the Pillars of Creation, and a gap on the Sistine ceiling.

Putting metrics, logs, and traces into one columnar store has been done, by more than one vendor, and in 2026 all of them connected agents. The real question sits one layer further down: once agents become first-class consumers, does the database itself h

Why do we have engineering managers, really?

With the rise of agents, every platform needs to be thought through from first principles - where the agent is a first-class citizen and actively does work on the platform.

Programming tests used to be our primary filter to separate profiles.In software engineering, they historically differentiated three distinct ones:the engineers, the ones who solve the fundamental problems. the developers, the ones who apply the right pat

An agent harness is the durable system around a coding model. Learn the eight layers that give Claude Code, Codex, and other agents context, tools, safety, and proof.

This is a follow-up to the 2025 annual review with a tighter set of constraints for 2026.