DevToolsDigest: Issue #364
This week's digest includes news and resources from Distributed Thoughts, Cursor, and more.
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The Week in DevTools
What is Continuous Delivery?
We have to understand that Continuous Delivery is not an endgame. It is not a project we implement once, and we are done. It is an exercise in continuous improvement that will never be over.
The Engineering Manager: One Bottleneck At A Time
This might sound obvious, but it’s surprisingly rare in practice. Most leaders spread their effort across many initiatives simultaneously, making partial progress on everything and completing nothing.
The Brownian Ratchet and the Chimpanzee Factory
Two independent projects solving multi-agent orchestration landed on the same primitives. That's not a coincidence—it's an industry figuring out what agent autonomy actually requires.
Industry Research
Product Marketing in 2026: Accountability in the Age of AI
Product marketing sits closest to the fault line, where narrative precision determines whether the business is understandable to the market and strategic coherence determines whether it performs economically.
DevOps Didn’t Fail, We Just Gave it the Tools it Deserved
DevOps has been far from perfect. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something. Whether DevOps “failed” depends entirely on where you’re standing and what yardstick you’re using.
Scaling Long-Running Autonomous Coding
Today's agents work well for focused tasks, but are slow for complex projects. The natural next step is to run multiple agents in parallel, but figuring out how to coordinate them is challenging.