Wes McKinney applies Brooks's Law to AI agents, coining 'the mythical agent-month.' The argument: throwing more agents at a software problem compounds coordination failures, not throughput. If you think autonomous coding pipelines scale linearly, McKinney has data and history against you.
Elsewhere: Andreas Kling details why Ladybird, the independent browser engine, is adopting Rust for new components. Cloudflare ships an MCP server with measurable efficiency gains. Elliot Bonneville argues the last defensible moat in AI products is capital, not technology or talent.
The Peon Ping install walkthrough and Bonneville's moat thesis are worth reading in full. The moat piece in particular names specific players and makes a structural claim about who survives the next 18 months. Read the original at Changelog.
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