SK Telecom now gives its AI agents employee IDs, supervisors and retirement criteria. Strip away the marketing and what’s left is a lifecycle for agents, which most companies are missing. Here’s how we handle it in Calendrz.
Your AI Agents Now Run on a Grid With a Dimmer Switch
Voters turned down data centres in all but one of 41 ballot measures, and OpenAI answered with cheaper power promises, a grid dimmer switch and a new name. The name is the least interesting bit: the compute your AI agents run on is now interruptible, and engineering teams should plan for it.
Banks Now Pay Engineers More Than Tech: What Gives?
Randstad says banks and healthcare companies now pay software engineers more than tech companies do. Why the money moved, and what it means for CTOs hiring engineers and for the engineers themselves.
Five Engineers Rebuilt X.com With AI Agents. Should You Rewrite Too?
Five engineers and their AI coding agents rebuilt the x.com web app in under six months. “Never rewrite from scratch” used to be gospel, but when writing code gets cheap, the hard part moves to the plan and the rollout. Here’s how that played out when I chose to build the Calendrz mobile apps natively, twice.
When AI Finds the Bug First: The Patch Window Is Closing
LinkedIn’s CISO says AI is shrinking the time between a flaw being found and it being exploited. What that means for patching, and how a small team like Calendrz keeps its dependencies current without having to think about it.
Wix Hands Your Site to Claude Code. The Lock-In Just Moved.
Wix Studio Two exports your site as React for Claude Code or Cursor, and Readwise opens your library to agents through MCP. Read the small print, though: both open the edges to your agent and keep the core. The lock-in hasn’t gone, it moved, and CTOs should ask what still calls home.
Interpolative Software: Where Your AI Agent Still Needs You
Ben Congdon splits software into interpolative (agents nail it from a few sentences) and novel (fighting uphill). Building Calendrz showed me exactly where that line runs, and why the bits you have to explain are the ones worth building.
Thoughts on Microsoft’s 60,000 Buyouts
Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 people as AI spending climbs. Why I think buyouts are a blunt instrument, and why the real prize for any company reshaping itself for AI is the speed of its decisions.
Your AI Agent’s Tests Are Green. That Proves Less Than You Think.
A founder rebuilt his whole platform alone with Claude Code, and his tests stayed green for weeks around a pigeon that never existed. When the agent writes the code and the tests, green proves less than you think: here’s what I’d check on Monday morning.
Of AI Agents, Code Mode and the One Tool to Rule Them All
Agents are collapsing their tool catalogues into a single exec tool and writing code against your APIs. Having built an MCP server with 30+ tools for Calendrz, I think that makes your tool design more important, not less, and privacy has to live in the tools.
