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MIKE (@mikenevermiss) on X

Anthropic engineer: “90% of our engineers were building self-improving loops. now we’ve moved to agentic graphs.” “we’re not prompting anymore.” In just 10 minutes, she walks through her entire Claude Code workflow live starting from a blank terminal. this is the kind of

2026-08-09
  • article

InfoQ

How Netflix Scaled Its Real-Time Service Map

Netflix has described how it redesigned the streaming pipeline behind Service Topology, its real-time service dependencies map, to support production scale. The system uses three stages to separate in

2026-08-12
  • systems

Gaming the System

40 YEARS AND I’M STILL HERE

To my amazement, September 2023 marked my 40th year in game development. I’m not sure how I’ve survived so long in a business that more typically burns people out in... somewhat less, let’s just say. That said, I have some thoughts about survival and an urge to tell the story of how I today find…

2026-08-19
  • article

Particular Software

Using anti-requirements to find system boundaries

We all love building greenfield projects. 1 But inevitably, starting a new project involves lots of meetings with business stakeholders to hash out initial requirements and canonical data models.

2026-08-26
  • systems
  • ai