Attention — Aug 27, 2026
What caught my attention on Aug 27 (2 items).
How to Build A Team Of Devs That Improves Itself
Modern Software Engineering (Article:07:48) - Published 2026-08-25 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-27 07:48
In this episode, Dave Farley argues that the key to building a self-improving software development team is to treat the organization as a complex adaptive system and work experimentally rather than relying on fixed plans. He notes that many business transformations fail—citing research suggesting 88% fall short—because leaders treat change as a simple, predictable problem with a predefined destina…
Your AGENTS.md file doesn’t actually do anything
Pivot to AI (Article:14:42) - Published 2026-08-26 18:00 - Discovered 2026-08-27 14:42
In this Pivot to AI episode, David Gerard examines whether AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md context files actually improve AI coding agents. Vendors often recommend adding a repository-level instruction file, but a team at ETH Zurich tested coding bots on projects with and without such files and found little benefit. Their results showed that context files did not generally increase task success rates, whil…