Tag: software engineering

All the articles with the tag "software engineering".

• Raising the Autonomy Ceiling: When Can an Agent Ship Without a Human?

  Published:Oct 19, 2026 |  at 03:05 AM

  Only 5% of enterprises fully trust automated evaluation, yet two-thirds already permit or are building toward agents that act without a human. Autonomy belongs to an action class, not an agent, and the ceiling needs a promotion file with a signature and a demotion trigger.

• Agents Are Software: Give Them a Delivery Pipeline

  Published:Oct 14, 2026 |  at 01:35 AM

  Only 53% of agent changes travel a standard pipeline, 19% of organisations have a gate that blocks a bad release, and a third have an instant kill switch. What an agent release actually requires.

• The Senior Engineer’s New Job: Designing, Reviewing and Owning Work Done by AI

  Published:Sep 11, 2026 |  at 06:05 AM

  Coding agents change senior engineering work from producing the most code to designing safe work, reviewing evidence and owning outcomes in production.