Wes McKinney argues that AI agents do not compress engineering time the way the industry claims, reviving Brooks's mythical man-month for the agentic era. The piece is worth reading for McKinney's specific framing of why coordination costs do not disappear when you swap humans for agents.
Elsewhere: Andreas Kling details why Ladybird, the independent browser engine, is adopting Rust. Cloudflare ships a new MCP server with measurable efficiency gains. Elliot Bonneville makes the case that capital, not code, is the last defensible moat in AI products.
The Peon Ping install angle and the moat argument from Bonneville are the sharpest reads in this issue. The full newsletter is at changelog.com/news/182.
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