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Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything. Back in 1988

Most of the new software being built right now will never have more than one user. One person, one team, or one company. The industry thinks that is a failure.

GitHub's platform uptime over the last 90 days is 86.98%. That is not a typo. Marek Šuppa, who built an independent tracker because GitHub stopped publishing aggregate uptime numbers on

There's a question I get asked very frequently at investor events: why did we choose to float Raspberry Pi, the company I co-founded, on the London Stock Exchange rather than

🪧 A full catalogue of the field can now be found at agentlanguages.dev. In the last six months, programming languages designed for models rather than humans have started to appear.

I find it somewhat ironic that the part of the job that most developers hate is about to become the whole job. Because, at least as far as I can

A model just wrote perfect code in a programming language it has never seen. Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 scored 100% on a benchmark of 50 coding problems written in Vera, a

When Finnish startup Donut Lab announced at CES 2026 that it had created the world's first production-ready solid-state battery, hardware folks like us got very excited, but on looking closer

This is a lightly edited transcript of a talk I gave at QCon London on 17 March 2026. AI is approaching perfection on exactly the tasks that used to comprise

Back in January I sat down and wrote about the idea that maybe we should we look at building a programming language optimised for AI. Since writing that article I