Prompt Engineering Is Requirements Engineering – O’Reilly

by | Sep 19, 2025

In the rush to get the most from AI tools, prompt engineering—the practice of writing clear, structured inputs that guide an AI tool’s output—has taken center stage. But for software engineers, the skill isn’t new. We’ve been doing a version of it for decades, just...

What can agents actually do? | Irrational Exuberance

by | Sep 16, 2025

There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but I find that many of...

On Working with Wizards – by Ethan Mollick

by | Sep 16, 2025

We are already used to trusting technological magic. Every time we use GPS without understanding the route, or let an algorithm determine what we see, we’re trusting a different type of wizard. But there’s a crucial difference. When GPS fails, I find out...