What 80% AI-written test pipelines actually cost

The first time I heard someone say their AI now wrote 80% of their tests, I asked the obvious question. Eighty percent of what? After 20 years building and leading test automation for consumer-scale platforms, my honest answer turned out to be eighty percent of the...

The next challenge for coding agents

On the first day of Software Engineering 101, you learned about the SDLC — the software development life cycle. You learned that there is a whole lot more to producing quality software than writing some code and deploying it to production. We’ve studied the SDLC every...

Which AI model should you bet your company on?

Every day this past week I did something I suspect millions of other people also did: I stared at an LLM model picker and wondered which one I was supposed to want. OpenAI just released ⁠GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna. Sol is the flagship. Terra offers much of its...

Where the software development jobs are now

While many technology companies have slowed hiring or even launched significant layoffs, that doesn’t mean job opportunities have dried up for software developers. In fact, skilled developers—particularly those with knowledge of AI—are in demand in other industries....