Issue #764
Friday 30th October issue is presented by Shopify
Shopify's Fall '26 Edition adds WebMCP tools to every Liquid and Hydrogen storefront and checkout, so agents get structured data to search, build carts, and check out after the buyer approves.
And shop.dev gives your team one keyless integration to 1B+ products and Shop Pay.
— Scott Carey, Justin Reock
tl;dr: “More than 600 developers across almost 100 companies were asked to perform the same business task using code in their normal workflow, and asked to measure the time it took to complete the task, as well as defect rates. The spread between the fastest and slowest performers was 11.1x, and that single number contributed to the 10x developer myth.”
Leadership OrgDesign DevEx
— John Cutler
tl;dr: “That got me thinking about how people (myself included) “self-sabotage” at work. The brain fog has made it hard to write a real piece, but I managed to pull together these thought fragments.”
Career Wellbeing
tl;dr: Shopify's Fall '26 Edition adds WebMCP tools to every Liquid and Hydrogen storefront and checkout, so agents get structured data to search, build carts, and check out after the buyer approves. And shop.dev gives your team one keyless integration to 1B+ products and Shop Pay.
Promoted by Shopify
AI Agents
— Annie Vella
tl;dr: “In this post, I’ll make the case that supervisory engineering work is a new form of a much older concept - supervisory control - one that’s been studied for decades and can tell us a lot about what this kind of job means for the people doing it.”
Leadership Management IndustryTrends
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
— Louise Deason
tl;dr: “Salary is the one line on the offer everyone knows to fight about, which is precisely why it’s the one line they’ve already padded to expect a fight. The other eight things on that offer are the ones nobody coached you on, the ones HR is quietly hoping you’ll sign without reading, and the ones that are - every single one of them - negotiable.”
Tips Career Negotiation
tl;dr: In one month, Upsun Dispatch agents reviewed 1,676 merge requests for our own engineering team. Total cost: about $470. That's roughly one day of a senior engineer, who'd get through 30 to 40. Every merge request got a first review in minutes, and our seniors kept their time for the risky changes. A human still approves every merge. Start with 20 free agent minutes a day.
Promoted by Upsun
CaseStudy CodeReview AI
tl;dr: “This article covers the patterns we've observed that have led to successful adoption of Claude Code at scale. We use “large codebase” to refer to a wide range of deployments: monorepos with millions of lines, legacy systems built over decades, dozens of microservices across separate repositories, or any combination of the above.“
Guide DevEx AI
— Boris Tane
tl;dr: “Applications that read their own signals, decide what to change, ship the change, and check whether it worked. And once software can improve itself, it can improve the machinery that improves it: better observability, sharper detection, deeper investigations, better fixes, each loop tightening the next one.”
IndustryTrends Agents AI
— Jan Schaumann
tl;dr: “The current situation is not sustainable: 0-days are dropping left and right, pre-notifications and embargoes are broken for marketing purposes, AI companies compete first on who commits the most crimes and then pretend to sell you protection in the form of a DoS on the Open Source community. "Nice project you got there. Be a shame if somebody dropped an 0-day on it.””
IndustryTrends OpenSource Security
Null Pointer
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Hand-drawn by Manu. View the Null Pointer series.
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Notable Links
AI Job Search: Job application framework built on Claude.
Bend: Fast language that blocks AI mistakes.
Impeccable: Design vocab for your coding agent.
Superplane: OS factory for one-shot engineering.
Taste Skill: OS skill files that give agents taste.
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