The Mythical Agent-Month – Wes McKinney

kept by eddie feb 20

AI coding agents accelerate accidental complexity but leave essential design problems unsolved, echoing Brooks's "No Silver Bullet" from 1986.

How Kenn is doing Agentic Engineering – Wes McKinney
Wes McKinney details Kenn's agentic engineering process, emphasizing human oversight in design and verification, using custom tools like Superpowers and roborev to maintain quality while merging hundreds of PRs weekly with low bug rates.
also on roborev, #ai-agents, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
GitHub - posit-dev/ggsql: A SQL extension for declarative data visualisation based on the Grammar of Graphics.
ggsql is a SQL extension that enables declarative data visualization within SQL queries using the Grammar of Graphics, currently supporting DuckDB and SQLite.
also on Posit, #productivity, #developer-tools
Statistics that live in your SQL
the-stats-duck v0.6.0 adds OLS regression, bootstrap, expanded distributions, and a Vega-Lite plot grammar to DuckDB SQL.
also on Posit, #developer-tools