Notes · Ben Milleare

A CTO friend can no longer pick out the 10x engineers on his team, because agentic coding has turned every capable engineer into one.

Stripe already owns stablecoin issuance, wallets, and a chain.

Fixed Temporal workflow IDs, an UPDATE that doubles as a lock, and fail-closed reconciliation: layering double-charge protection into a payments system.

With agentic teams, two hackers can spin up five MVPs while a normal team ships one feature.

Coding agents should run unsupervised, but inside a dev environment that's safe to be wrong in.

Most companies run a migration campaign to clear users off a deprecated API.

GitHub had 3,800 internal repos exfiltrated via a poisoned VS Code extension.

Brent Roose says PHP's biggest problem is marketing, not the tech.

OpenAI is reportedly burning $1.69 for every dollar earned, and Anthropic is already raising prices.

Google shipped multi-token prediction for Gemma 4.

What this section is for, what to expect, and the loose rules I'm writing it under.

Engineers treat coding agents as smart junior devs.