Agentic Engineering Weekly for May 22-30, 2026

Code is the result of hundreds of decisions an hour, coding agents that makes them in your stead are not saving you any time. Big tech is waking up to the fact that tokenmaxxing only results in higher inference bills.

https://agentic-engineering-weekly.jovaneyck.be/agentic-engineering-weekly-for-may-22-30-2026/

#opus48 #tokenmaxxing #orchestrationtax #habitatengineering #agenticengineering

Agentic Engineering Weekly for May 15-22, 2026

Andrej Karpathy reframed his own term "vibe coding". Giants like Google and Anthropic are hiring forward-deployed engineers by the dozen to embed at customer sites and make their own models actually do something _useful_. GitHub, one of the leading companies building these tools, gets hacked via their own tools. Markdown is the new stack overflow vulnerability.

https://agentic-engineering-weekly.jovaneyck.be/agentic-engineering-weekly-for-may-15-22-2026/

#forwarddeployedengineer #fde #githubcopilot #vibecoding

Agentic Engineering Weekly for May 8-15, 2026

Harness engineering gained traction, the maintenance bill from a year of vibe coding came due, and METR put the first credible number on agent autonomy.

https://agentic-engineering-weekly.jovaneyck.be/agentic-engineering-weekly-for-may-8-15-2026/

#harnessengineering #anthropic

Does programming language choice still matter in the agentic engineering era?

Watch this week's video and find out which language topped my benchmark.

https://youtu.be/InDK4g1Bq6k

#agenticengineering #claudecode #codex #githubcopilot #cursor

Agentic Engineering Weekly for May 1-9, 2026

DORA weighs in on ROI in enterprise, cognitive surrender, the enemy of my OpenAI enemy is my xAI friend.

https://agentic-engineering-weekly.jovaneyck.be/agentic-engineering-weekly-for-may-1-9-2026/

#DORA #OpenAI #Anthropic #xAI #CognitiveSurrender #AgenticEngineering

Does Programming Language Choice Even Matter Anymore?

TL;DR I ran a small experiment to see whether the choice of programming language still matters when an AI agent is doing most of the typing. I expected strongly typed languages to win. They weren't the clear winners. TypeScript and JavaScript came out on top for token cost, Python was the most expensive, and F# was the slowest. The honest takeaway: with the data I have, neither the "types vs no types" axis nor the…

https://jvaneyck.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/does-programming-language-choice-even-matter-anymore/

Agentic Engineering Weekly for April 24 - May 2, 2026

The honeymoon phase ended in stereo this week.

More hard data on AI productivity, the pricing reset got calendar entries, techlash gets organised into actual policy

https://agentic-engineering-weekly.jovaneyck.be/agentic-engineering-weekly-for-april-24-may-2-2026/

#agenticengineering #claudecode #cursor #githubcopilot

Agentic Engineering Weekly for April 17-25, 2026

Full issue: https://agentic-engineering-weekly.jovaneyck.be/agentic-engineering-weekly-for-april-17-25-2026/

#gpt55 #agenticengineering #thoughtworks #techradar #tokenmaxxing