Recommended Reads

Books, articles, and essays worth your time.

Books

  • A Philosophy of Software Design John Ousterhout

    Clear thinking on managing complexity in software systems.

  • An Elegant Puzzle Will Larson

    Systems for engineering management — practical and grounded.

  • The Pragmatic Programmer Hunt & Thomas

    Timeless advice for writing maintainable, professional code.

Threads

  • The Third Era of AI Software Development Michael Truell · CEO, Cursor

    Traces AI coding through Tab → synchronous agents → cloud agents. Agent usage in Cursor is up 15× in a year; 35% of internal PRs are now written entirely by agents running in cloud VMs.

  • Lessons from Building Claude Code: Seeing like an Agent Thariq · Anthropic

    On the hardest part of building an agent harness — constructing its action space. Should you give the agent one tool or fifty? How the design of that surface shapes everything the agent can do.

Articles & Essays