Should we even read all this generated code? Blunt test: if you had time to read everything you generated last week, you're not generating enough. Engineering shifted — from handcrafting line by line to designing the tools, harnesses and loops. Cheap, for now. Someone pays that bill.

New issue of my newsletter is out. This week I got stuck on one question: if AI writes the code, what's left for me? Turns out a lot of it is just reviewing until I stop actually reading. A few reads that pushed my thinking on this:

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The AI divide keeps widening: some engineers are deep in agent harnesses and effort tuning, a huge group hasn't adapted at all. And I keep wondering when the AI bubble pops. My newsletter #19 sits right in that tension: https://motyl.dev/newsletter/19

The AI job apocalypse isn't coming, and I finally believe it. In this week's newsletter I recommend a few reads that changed my mind: the real brakes on automation are cost and regulation, not model limits. Check it out 👇 motyl.dev Weekly #18 https://motyl.dev/newsletter/18

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New newsletter issue is up. Short and sharp this week. The agent tooling keeps sprinting — cloud agents, subagent primitives, GLM-5.2 vs Kimi head-to-heads — but the best reads pulled the other way: stay skeptical, don't over-engineer. Build fast, keep your judgment on. 👇

New issue: AI made typing faster — it did nothing for whether you're typing the right thing. Inside #16: Kent C. Dodds vs Grady Booch (he pushes back, hard), why Claude Code works better when sessions die, and contract-style comments for agents. https://motyl.dev/newsletter/16

The mood among engineers is shifting: we're done pretending you can vibe-code and walk away. This week — Claude Code vs Antigravity vs Codex evaluated, "Loop Engineering," and six months of data on how AI search killed keyword SEO.

motyl.dev Weekly #14 is out. Kilo planted 15 bugs, let 5 AI models hunt. Opus won, the only one that checked the test math by hand instead of trusting green checkmarks. Plus Kent Beck on trust, and the new Thoughtworks Tech Radar. https://motyl.dev/newsletter/14

New issue of motyl.dev Weekly is out. The theme: AI makes code cheap, but judgment expensive. Inside — a FREE Claude Code course w/ Lydia Hallie (Anthropic), why the AI coding revolution hasn't started, RSC architecture, and two fresh UI libs. https://motyl.dev/newsletter/13

The interesting parts of the AI stack are no longer the prompts. This week: Addy Osmani on long-running agents, Anthropic's pricing reset, why your file system isn't agent memory, and the annual "just use Postgres" reminder. https://motyl.dev/newsletter/12

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Newsletter #11 is out. This week's question: what stays when the model writes the code? → Tanner Linsley shrank React to 10 KB in a weekend → Four sensible ways to build a website → Prompt injection is the new SQL injection https://motyl.dev/newsletter/11

Issue #10 of motyl.dev Weekly is out. The theme: agents are software again. Eval-ops, harnesses, compiler-style output checks, mission-control dashboards. Plus my own deep dive on Pavilio, the open-source panel I built to keep multiple CLI agents in line. https://motyl.dev/newsletter/10

motyl.dev Weekly #9 is out. Developers double every 5 years. The next wave grows up with AI coding assistants as default. Great time to learn real software engineering and be ahead of the curve. Opportunity, not risk — or somewhere between. https://motyl.dev/newsletter/9

I was about to vibe-code my own Postman alternative. Then KIVO showed up — open source, lightweight, free. Plus how to structure CLAUDE.md after 1000 sessions, Railway moving off Next.js, and the operational stuff people are finally writing down about agent dev.

Anthropic shipped Claude Design this week. Figma's stock dipped within hours. Same week, Adam Argyle argued AI is structurally bad at frontend. So which aged worse? Issue #7 is built around that tension (+ a pelican benchmark that means something). https://motyl.dev/newsletter/7

Every major AI provider throttled usage at the same time. Kent Beck explains why in "Starving Genies" — it's not chips or compute. motyl.dev Weekly #6: 16 reads on AI economics, agent architecture, and the subscription model cracking. https://motyl.dev/newsletter/6

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Two major npm security incidents in one week — Axios got a trojan, Claude Code source leaked via source maps. Plus: TypeScript 7.0's Go rewrite, Kent Beck on TCR for AI agents, and GitHub's AI-era dominance questioned. New issue of my weekly newsletter: motyl.dev/newsletter/5

I’ll be honest: motyl.dev probably wouldn't exist without AI. ​But as a consultant, I’m seeing a trend - intensive AI use doesn't always equal better results. It’s a tool, not a silver bullet. ​The latest issue explores this "Productivity Paradox." ​Get it here: motyl.dev/newsletter/3

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Weekly curated digest: Week 12 (Mar 16 – Mar 22, 2026)

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​🚀 Issue #2 of motyl-dev Weekly is out! ​There's tons of valuable content this week to keep you up to speed on the ever-changing tech landscape. ​Read the full issue here: motyl.dev/newsletter/2 🦋 ​#SoftwareEngineering #Frontend #AI #WebDevelopment #React #Nextjs #TypeScript #TechNewsletter

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Weekly curated digest: Week 11 (Mar 9 – Mar 15, 2026)

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My first skill for Claude Code: an AFK Telegram Bridge that lets you manage agent sessions from your phone when you're away from the terminal is live. Read the full story on my blog motyl.dev/articles/my-...

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