Engineering at the frontier

Perspectives on AI coding, developer workflows, and the future of software engineering.

Announcements

An Update on Codegen

Over the past year, a lot has changed for Codegen — and most of it is worth being direct about. In late 2025, Codegen was acquired by ClickUp. The standa…

AI & Software Development

AI Copilot for Development: Why Context Is the Real Differentiator

Your team adopted a coding copilot six months ago. Completion rates are up, boilerplate takes…
9 min read

Best AI Code Generation Tools: A Builder's Breakdown

Most developers already know which AI code generation tools exist. The harder question is whe…
10 min read

AI Code Review Tools: 8 Options for the Agent Era

GitHub reported in 2023 that developers using Copilot completed tasks 55.8% faster than control groups.…
9 min read

Best AI Coding Agents in 2026: Ranked and Compared

Most comparisons of the best AI coding agents treat this as a feature competition. Which tool has the c…
14 min read

Cursor Alternatives: Which AI Coding Tool Actually Fits Your Workflow

Most comparisons of Cursor alternatives read like a menu. You get a table, a list of tools, and a few s…
8 min read

What Is Vibe Coding (and How to Actually Do It at Scale)

A year ago, Andrej Karpathy posted a thread about a new way he was building software. He described acce…
9 min read

How to Build Agentic Coding Workflows That Actually Ship

Agentic coding workflows fail at a predictable point, and it's not the model. The culprit is almost alw…
10 min read

From Voice Notes to Production Code: Yes, You Can Ship from WhatsApp

Some of the best ideas don’t happen at a desk. They come mid-conversation, on the go, or while you’re t…
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Engineering Insights

How AI Development Is Moving from Specialized Agents to Orchestration

Specialized coding agents got AI development off the ground. But as general-purpose models like Claude …
4 min read

Why Code Review Will Determine Who Wins in the AI Era

For decades, software engineering was defined by writing code. But that balance has shifted. With AI co…
4 min read

SWE Agents are Better with Codemods

Coding assistants like Cursor have brought us into a new era of programming. But there's a class of prog…
2 min read

Act via Code

Two and a half years since the launch of the GPT-3 API, code assistants have emerged as potentially the…
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Product & Features

Codegen Weekly Diff

The past week’s releases focus on refinement — polishing UI consistency, strengthening integrations, an…
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Codegen On-Prem Deployment: Bring the OS for Code Agents In House

If your organization can’t move code or logs outside its network, you shouldn’t have to sit out the age…
4 min read

Introducing Codegen 3.0: The Operating System for Code Agents

Software development is undergoing its biggest transformation since the compiler. Code generation has u…
4 min read

Codegen + Linear: Where Tickets Become Code

Backlogs don’t clear themselves. But now, they can feel like they do. With our new Codegen + Linear int…
3 min read

Case Studies & Demos

Case Study: How Warmly’s CSMs Ship Production Features with Codegen

About Warmly Warmly’s person-level intent platform makes marketing more precise by identifying ideal cu…
3 min read

Customer Success Story: Lambda Curry

For Lambda Curry, a modern software company building fast-moving products, traditional development work…
2 min read

Case Study: AI-Powered SQLAlchemy Upgrade

Upgrading your tech stack is like cleaning out your closet. You know it needs to happen, but, ah, it’s …
2 min read

Codemods & Refactoring

Automating Dead Code Removal with AI and Static Analysis

Dead Code Removal Sucks ☠️ Dead code is a perennial source of tech debt in large codebases. As unused c…
3 min read

Security & Compliance

Automating Dead Code Removal with AI and Static Analysis

Dead Code Removal Sucks ☠️ Dead code is a perennial source of tech debt in large codebases. As unused c…
3 min read