DevToolsDigest: Issue #366
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The Week in DevTools
My AI Adoption Journey
"This is my journey of how I found value in AI tooling and what I'm trying next with it. In an ocean of overly dramatic, hyped takes, I hope this represents a more nuanced, measured approach to my views on AI and how they've changed over time."
Git Rebase for the Terrified
"I regularly ask contributors to rebase their branches before merging. The response is often hesitation or outright fear. I get it. Rebase has a reputation for destroying work, and the warnings you see online don’t help."
MCP, Skills, and Agents
Coding agents have latched onto skills recently. Like with all of these waves, everyone has immediately proclaimed they solve all problems, and all previous iterations of technology are no longer relevant. That’s obviously not true.
Industry Research
Don't Fall Into the Anti-AI Hype
LLMs are able to complete large subtasks or medium size projects alone, almost unassisted, given a good set of hints about what the end result should be. It is now clear that for most projects, writing the code yourself is no longer sensible.
Strategic Licensing in Open Source
For many years, licensing was an ideological badge: you were either 'Free Software' or 'Open Source.' Today, for COSS companies, licensing is product strategy. Your license is your defensive moat.
The Rise of Coding Agent Orchestrators
Gartner expects agentic orchestration to redirect $550B in global software and services spend by 2029. But the majority of engineering teams have no business adopting agent orchestration right now.