DevToolsDigest: Issue #367
This week's digest includes news and resources from The Pragmatic Engineer, Caimito, and more.
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The Week in DevTools
Let's Use AI to Finish the Job DevOps Started
DevOps removed the wall between developers and operations, but the wall between developers and infrastructure remains. The next generation will use AI to remove that wall by embedding into the software developer's workflow.
Eight More Months of Agents
Most software is the wrong shape now. Most of the ways we try to solve problems are the wrong shape. A huge part of working with agents is discovering their limits. The limits keep moving right now, which means constant re-learning.
Introducing tapes: Transparent AI Agent Telemetry
tapes is a durable, auditable record of every agent session. Like magnetic tapes, the most resilient data storage medium ever created, tapes ensures that nothing your agents do is ever lost.
Industry Research
How 10 Tech Companies Choose the Next Gen of Dev Tools
Right now, it seems like almost every tech company is changing its developer tooling stack, which is a big shift from eighteen months ago when the answer to “what to use for AI-assisted coding?” was simple.
We've Tried to Replace Developers for Decades Since 1969
Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. Business leaders grow frustrated with slow delivery and high costs. Developers feel misunderstood and undervalued.
StrongDM Builds Without Even Looking at the Code
Their new team started with the rule “no hand-coded software.” They quickly ran into the obvious problem: if you’re not writing anything by hand, how do you ensure that the code actually works?