Thoughtworks ran a controlled experiment on TDD inside an AI agent loop: red-green cycles cost up to 8.5x more tokens than spec-first prompting, and blind quality judging preferred the non-TDD output. Here's what that means for how you should actually prompt coding agents.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max ran autonomously for 16 days, producing 265 commits, 127 PRs, and 151 issues on a public GitHub repo. The tech lead question isn't whether AI can do this — it's whether you can trust it, verify it, and build a team process around it.
Microsoft cancelled thousands of Claude Code licenses. Uber burned its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. The technical reason why - and what every engineering team should do about it.
How Spec-Driven Development (SDD) transforms agentic AI from a vibe-coding toy into a production-ready engineering discipline. Real project experiences, frameworks, tooling, and hard lessons from leading teams with Claude Code, Kiro, and BMAD.
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