Retrospective on Rituals in a World of Human + Agent Collaboration

<p>I was sitting in a demo from the head of architecture when the problem clicked into focus. He was showing how his team had moved everything out of Confluence and into Markdown

<p>A few weeks back I gave a coding agent one instruction: <em>"fix the failing import and ship it."</em></p> <p>CI went green. The agent, which I'd allowed to self-merge when

<p>What three independent research groups concluded in early 2026 — and what it means for anyone building agent pipelines today</p> <p>In the first quarter of 2026, at least three

<p>On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code — its flagship AI coding agent — inside a routine npm update. No hack. No reverse

<p>Vertex AI has been Google Cloud's AI development platform since 2021. On April 22, 2026, at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google retired it — not with a deprecation notice,

<h2> Introduction: The Moment Manual Coding Became "Optional" </h2> <p>In January 2026, Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, made a statement that reverberated across

<ul> <li>GitHub repository: <a href="https://github.com/gezilinll/agent-grove" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/gezilinll/agent-grove</a> </li> <li>Online

<p>"The Reasoning Trap." The line the authors won't quite say out loud is that the smarter your model gets at reasoning, the more likely it is to fabricate a tool that doesn't