ghuntley.com/replaced/ if your team is too busy doing their 'normal job' to experiment with AI, you're preparing them to be replaced When Ralph was published last year, I sat on it. People who have been reading this blog for a while know this. I first came across the idea of…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… UX Roundup: Erik the Red | AI Thematic Analysis | Nano Banana 2.1 | Scrolling | Fast Asymptote in AI Skills | Average Users | Wishlists | Usability Testing Without Findings | Naming Consistency How Erik the Red discovered Greenland | AI now codes user…

ivokund.com/first-look-at-cl… First look at Claude Code mods (spoiler: yes, use one now!) I have to say I was sceptical at first. "Mods" – we already had hooks, right, so what can be so special? I'm not going to retell what mods can do. Nor do I recommend reading through the manual.…

infoq.com/news/2026/10/clef-… Cloudflare Open Sources Decision Models for AI Agents During its recent “Birthday Week”, Cloudflare announced Clef, a set of open-weight AI models designed to choose between predefined options rather than generate text. Cloudflare released 9B- and…

infoq.com/news/2026/06/ai-pr… AI Is Moving up the Software Lifecycle: from Code Review to PRD Governance Technology companies are extending AI beyond code generation into earlier stages of the software lifecycle, including PRD validation, design inputs, and code review. Initiatives…

infoq.com/news/2026/08/AI-di… How Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Engineering Progression AI is disrupting career progression by eliminating the learning opportunities at each rung while simultaneously enabling people to perform above their experience level, Alasdair Allan explained…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… Behavioral Economics & UX: Design for Irrational Humans People don’t decide the way classical economics assumes. They take mental shortcuts and follow seemingly irrational rules that were tuned for survival in the Paleolithic, not for pricing pages…

developers.openai.com/api/do… Decisions | OpenAI API Use the Decisions API to check conditions, select from fixed options, and score text and images against a rubric.

newsletter.pragmaticengineer… The state of the tech industry in 2026 A look into what has changed, what’s still the same – and what’s broken – in the tech industry. The full video and the summary of my keynote at LDX3 New York

infoq.com/news/2026/10/googl… Flagged by the Machine: How Google Ads Suspended an Open-Source macOS Term as Malicious Przemyslaw Alexander Kaminski created RACE, a Rust terminal multiplexer on an infinite canvas that detaches child shells into background processes. When he launched…

infoq.com/news/2026/10/istio… Istio 1.31 Adds Agentgateway Waypoints and Moves Release Artifacts off Google Cloud Istio 1.31 adds agentgateway waypoints in ambient mode, with a canary configuration fix included in 1.31.1. It also ends the publication of images and Helm charts to…

infoq.com/news/2026/10/opena… OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap for Developers OpenAI announced a series of product and developer updates at DevDay 2026, including GPT-6.1 Sol, computer use for the Agents API, cloud-based Codex environments, a Decisions API, and new plugin…

infoq.com/news/2026/10/dotne… Aspire 13.6 Adds Persistent Dashboard Telemetry and First-Party Java and Rust Hosting Microsoft has released Aspire 13.6. The dashboard now stores telemetry in SQLite and keeps up to ten completed runs per application. The release adds prerelease hosting…

infoq.com/presentations/elas… Building Reusable Evaluation Frameworks for Agentic AI Products Susan Chang explains how Elastic transitioned from siloed, ad-hoc AI agent evaluations to a unified, production-grade framework. She discusses balancing LLM-as-a-judge with deterministic…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… UX Roundup: AI Errors Halve Every 5 Months | Muse Charm | Synthetic Users in Exploratory Design | Context | AI-Simulated Users Are Biased | Price Comparisons | Perceived Affordance | Consistency | Tab

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infoq.com/news/2026/10/istio… Istio 1.31 Adds Agentgateway Waypoints and Moves Release Artifacts off Google Cloud Istio 1.31 adds agentgateway waypoints in ambient mode, with a canary configuration fix included in 1.31.1. It also ends the publication of images and Helm charts to…

infoq.com/presentations/door… Building GenAI Platform at DoorDash Swaroop Chitlur and Sidd Kodwani share DoorDash’s journey building an internal GenAI platform. They discuss core architectural bets, transitioning from vendor-first setups to open-weights models,…

infoq.com/news/2026/10/envoy… Envoy Gateway 1.9.1 Tightens Security and Addresses a Difficult Upgrade Path Envoy Gateway has released v1.9.1, a maintenance release that focuses heavily on security, upgrade reliability, and operational correctness following the broader v1.9 release.

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… UX Roundup: Vigilance Fatigue | Adaptive Authoring | UI Clutter | Scenarios vs. Surveys for User Preferences | Measure Outcomes | Satisfaction vs. Expectations | Spotlight Features | Allow Paste...