Seroter's Daily Reading List: AI coding stacks, backlog burn-down and the future of software engineering
rseroter · x · 2026-09-09
Richard Seroter's #862 daily reading list focuses on software engineering in the AI era:
- Architecting the AI dev stack: how coding agents, workflows, orchestration, and platforms each play a role—and why you don't need all of them everywhere.
- When AI burns down the backlog: with AI boosting throughput, identifying useful work fast enough is now a real question that was silly to ask six months ago.
- Future of software engineering: a roundup piece summarizing the current debate, plus an analysis of where humans fit in "software factory" models.
- The quality paradox of AI-generated code: why maintainability and change confidence are suddenly moving in opposite directions.
- Practical write-up: replacing 15 Go packages with just the standard library, and what it took.
- AI for Science: DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas, a predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome.
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