Friday Links: AI adoption, cheap stack, and obfuscation
24 Apr 2026 #mondaylinksHey there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. I have many horror stories from daily meetings and other “ceremonies.” From SCRUM masters being police officers to sticky notes signed with blood. Agile killed the software industry (6min).
#2. Conway’s law, Brooks’ law, Peter principle…Do they ring a bell? Well, those are some of the laws of software engineering.
#3. At a past job, Postman was our official API tool. Then it went paid, then it became…something else? For something as simple as calling APIs, we’re in a tooling crisis (7min). Maybe all we need is curl (2min).
#4. Have you ever used a typewriter? Imagine writing an essay with no AI, spellchecker, or backspace. That’s what this teacher asks his students to use (5min) once each semester.
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about the main advantage of coding the old way (2min). Yes, not using AI is already “the old way.”
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See you next Friday with more links.
Keep coding the old way (or not).
Cesar