Cloud Rats and Software Roaches (Idle Words)

We are entering an epoch where it may become easy for small pieces of self-replicating code to permanently infest Internet-connected devices in a way that is hard to undo. Such a world would be annoying to live in and we should take steps to forestall it. Go to...

The Agentic Software Factory Hierarchy of Needs – O’Reilly

Stripe’s Minions turn engineering requests into candidate pull requests. Ramp’s Inspect puts coding agents to work in the background, with tools to check their changes. Warp Factories takes work from tickets and chat through agents, checks, and human review. Agentic...

AI and work organisation: lessons from Moderna

In 2025, I had written several articles about Moderna’s AI-driven engagement. At the time, the business was making headlines for its adoption of ChatGPT, the number of GPTs created by its employees, and, above all, its decision to merge HR and IT under a single...