Martin Fowler's site, August 19, 2026. Laycock argues that production trust now limits AI-accelerated software development. Experienced engineers gain leverage by designing the guardrails that agents use to implement features.
In the News: September 18, 2026
Addy Osmani quantifies what human reviewers spend once agents write the code, with a named verification budget and per-feature timing data.
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Osmani puts a time budget on human verification
Osmani walks through his own 82-minute build of a TMDB clone and tracks where the agent's output required human judgment before it could be trusted. He calls that time a "verification budget," borrowing the concept from web performance…
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