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Martin Fowler published a fascinating report from a February 2026 retreat where senior engineering practitioners from major tech companies gathered to discuss how AI is reshaping software development. It’s dense, so here’s what stood out to me. Where Does the Rigor Go? The biggest question of the retreat: if AI writes the code, where does the engineering discipline move? The answer is — it doesn’t disappear, it migrates: Upstream to specs — Bad specs produce bad code at scale....

If you’re building AI systems in production — or just getting started — these repos are worth bookmarking. LLM Serving & Inference vLLM (66k+ stars) — The industry standard for high-throughput LLM serving. Continuous batching and maximum GPU utilization. If you’re serving LLMs in production, this is probably what you should be using. Ollama (162k+ stars) — The easiest way to run LLMs locally. Great for fast experimentation before you commit to a cloud setup....