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OpenClaw and the Security Crisis Nobody Planned For
In November 2025, Austrian developer Peter Steinberger – previously known as the founder of PSPDFKit – released OpenClaw, a free, …
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Building with AI: What Thirteen Years of Software Engineering Taught Us About the Next Thirteen
CONFLICT was founded in 2012. The first iPhone with a Retina display had been out for two years. Kubernetes did not exist. Neither did Docker. …
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Modern AI Development: What Has Actually Changed
There is no shortage of articles declaring that AI has changed everything about software development. Most of them are wrong, or at least imprecise. …
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What Is a Software Factory in 2026?
The term “software factory” has a long and mostly unfortunate history. In the 1960s and 1970s, companies like Hitachi and Toshiba …
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AWS Partnership and TeamSpartan: Why Certifications Matter More Than You Think
There is a gap in the cloud services market that nobody talks about honestly. On one side, you have consultancies that “use AWS” the way a …
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The Last Generation of Coders
There is a generation of software developers currently entering the workforce who will be the last to learn programming the way it has been taught for …
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The F1 Team Model: Why Small Engineering Teams Now Outbuild Enterprises
A Formula 1 team has roughly 800 to 1,000 people. Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, employs over 375,000. Yet an F1 team designs, machines, …
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Outcome Engineering: Why Nobody Wants to Buy Your Hours Anymore
For decades, software consulting ran on a simple transaction: clients bought developer hours. Whether structured as time-and-materials, retainers, or …
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The SaaSpocalypse Is Real -- And It's Just Getting Started
In the first week of February 2026, nearly one trillion dollars in software market capitalization evaporated. Atlassian dropped 35% in a single week. …
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Finding Diagrams in Video Is Harder Than You Think
A 90-minute screen share produces thousands of frames. Most of them are someone’s face. Some are a desktop with Slack open. A few — maybe six — …
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PlanOpticon Is Now Open Source and on PyPI
Today we’re open-sourcing PlanOpticon, our video analysis and knowledge extraction tool. It’s MIT licensed, available on PyPI, and ships …
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The AI-Native Manifesto: Principles for Building in the Agent Era
We are at an inflection point. The tools have changed. The economics have changed. The pace of what is possible has changed. But most of the …
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