How good are coding agents today? What do the benchmarks tell us?
A 93% on SWE-Bench Verified does not mean an agent does 93% of an engineer's job. It means something much more specific, and reading the specifics correctly is the whole game.
Stop asking AI questions. Start having it do things for you.
Most people who use AI are stuck in transactional mode: type a question, read the answer, close the tab. The leverage is somewhere else, and almost nobody is there yet.
Control of your codebase is an illusion
Every engineering leader has said it: 'if we had more time to test, review, and define requirements, we wouldn't have these production issues.' AI doesn't change that problem. It changes the economics of solving it.
AI should never be the reason you're laying off people
Over 100,000 employees were impacted by AI-attributed layoffs in 2025. In most cases, AI is either the excuse, the misunderstanding, or the tell that imagination ran out.
Working with global teams: top 10 rules
18 years of managing offshore teams distilled into ten rules. They apply to any team, but they matter most when distance amplifies every mistake.