Geoff Huntley
Agentic development economics
Software engineer documenting the collapse in the cost of agentic software development.
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I don't know if you've seen this, but a CA just got popped. Their keys got leaked, which means the industry as a whole now has some pretty major problems. It was revealed two hours ago. eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise Now you&
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by now, most people should be aware that we're in a cost of compute crisis. The cost of CPU and memory is through the roof. There just isn't enough. Meanwhile, there definitely aren't enough GPUs in the world. If you've been using
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Armin Ronacher and Ben Vinegar had me on State of Agentic Coding to talk about the curiosity test, DHH coming around, durable agents, a Lisp you program by talking to it, and why the labs cannot afford to fail.
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I have to say, Peter Steinberg (aka lobster man) is absolutely brilliant. He was so ahead of his time with OpenClaw. I remember when he first tweeted about it last year, and when it turned into utter lobster madness at the beginning of the year. Heck, I even ran OpenClaw
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All right, I'm going to open up a history lesson because it's been a couple of generations of software engineers since this essay, and I have to assume not everyone knows what a cathedral is. Everyone knows what a bazaar is because they're using
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Josh Wulf and I talked loop engineering for four episodes. The models stopped being the constraint a long time ago; what's left is vision, verification and agency. Delete your skill packs, put the whole system under test, and revisit everything that used to be hard.
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Justin Cormack, who worked on MirageOS back in the day, called me at the pub to talk about why unikernels are coming back. The friction that made them hard is gone, the operating system is design debt, and if you care about security you should seriously consider them.
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When Ralph was published last year, I sat on it. People who have been reading this blog for a while know this. I first came across the idea of loop engineering in early January last year, sat on it for four months, and then started writing a lot, begging people
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Here's something I've been meaning to write up for a while. It's kind of late, but I'm going to lean into the whole MCP vs. CLI argument because I have a perspective others might find interesting. What's the actual difference
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I don't know if you've noticed yet, but JetBrains reported a net loss for the first time in its recorded history. https://www.helgilibrary.com/companies/jetbrains Before we go into this, let's rewind time to January 2025, nearly a year and a half
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There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
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It's kind of strange seeing all these discussions about software factories... and the like. It's also strange to see conversations about programming languages or claims that $language is best, as if that will remain true going forward. It's very clear, however, that programming
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Forty years of computing was designed around humans as the reader, writer and operator. On AI21's YAAP podcast I argued that's no longer a design goal, and what that means for programming languages.
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One of the original promises of a personal computer was that the computer would be personal. It's kind of strange to think that, now in 2026, it has taken circa 40 years for this to actually become true. You see, over the last 40 years, someone was either
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This is the eighteen-month recap: the talk I gave on day two of AI Engineer Singapore. A lot has happened since the six-month recap in Melbourne. The recording is below, followed by an edited transcript with the slides. Welcome back. For those who were at the party here
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🎉 It's been a busy six months, that's for sure. I'm not going to bury the lede here; the short TLDR is I'm joining the folks over at https://antithesis.com/ . If I wind back time to November 2024 , it was apparent
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Some personal hot takes from AI: Engineer Miami follows... 1. Software development is a dead-end profession because anyone can be a software developer now. 2. Anyone can use Cursor or any other tool and generate code. Being a coder and being a software engineer are different. 3. Computers used
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The Australian government has implemented policies that negatively impact startup founders, potentially stifling innovation and economic growth. The author, Geoffrey Huntley, expresses frustration over the government's handling of issues such as digital contact tracing, citing Australia's COVIDSafe program as an example of inadequate technology implementation. This has led to a sense of disillusionment among startup founders. AI summary
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This is a follow-up from my previous post about AI as an economic weapon. If you haven't read it, I suggest that you do before proceeding. AI as economic warfare People often ask me how I feel about open-source models, and to be clear, I’
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People often ask me how I feel about open-source models, and to be clear, I'm very supportive of them. But I can't help pondering about the following... Open source always was and always will be a financial weapon by design. You see, one of the
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