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Phil Parsons reposted thisPhil Parsons reposted thisGoogle published a free ~50 page whitepaper on the new SDLC with Vibe Coding & Agentic Engineering! Today I'm sharing a 50-page paper co-authored by me, Shubham Saboo and Dr. Sokratis Kartakis Kartakis, and part of Google's 5-day AI Agents course on Kaggle. It's free and we think you'll find it a useful read. AI compresses implementation from weeks to hours. But requirements, architecture, and verification stay stubbornly human-paced. That asymmetry changes everything. The bottleneck isn't typing anymore. It's spec quality. Vibe coding and agentic engineering aren't different tools. They're different disciplines. The difference isn't whether you use AI. It's how much structure, verification, and human judgment surrounds the output. Casual prompts and accepted-whatever-came-back is vibe coding. Formal specs, automated eval suites, CI gates, and human oversight of architecture is agentic engineering. Both use the same agent. What separates them is the harness. Agent = Model + Harness. There's a temptation to treat model quality as the explanation for everything good and bad about your agent. It's wrong, and it leads to the wrong investments. The model is the engine. The harness - the prompts, tools, rule files, sandboxes, guardrails, orchestration logic, observability - is the car, the road, and the traffic laws. When an agent does something wrong, the first instinct is to blame the model. More often the failure traces back to a missing tool, a vague rule, an absent guardrail, or a context window stuffed with noise. Most agent failures, examined honestly, are configuration failures. Three things I believe will stay true as the tools change: Structure scales, vibes don't. Vibe coding is valid for exploration and prototypes. For software organizations depend on, the discipline of agentic engineering is not optional. AI amplifies your engineering culture. Strong testing practices and clear architectural standards get dramatically more value from AI than teams without them. It's a force multiplier, and it multiplies both your strengths and your weaknesses. The human role is evolving, not diminishing. The builders who understand architecture, define precise specifications, and evaluate output critically are more valuable than ever. The skills that matter are shifting from implementation to judgment - from writing code to designing the systems that produce code. Generation is solved. Verification, judgment, and direction are the new craft. We hope you find the new whitepaper a helpful read! Download the PDF here: https://lnkd.in/gPsGzjPZ #ai #programming #softwareengineering
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Phil Parsons reposted thisPhil Parsons reposted thisYou know we’ve officially entered a strange phase of AI when someone uses Claude Opus 4.8… just to rename a file 😂😂😂 It’s like using a SpaceX launchpad to light a candle. But honestly, that’s how these tools get adopted. People don’t start with massive workflows. They start with tiny tasks that save 30 seconds… then suddenly the AI is everywhere. That’s also why some companies are spending insane amounts on AI infrastructure right now. The “small” use cases compound fast. Anthropic hitting a reported $47B revenue run rate starts making a lot more sense when you see how casually people are using frontier models for everyday work. Agentic budgeting at its finest. If you’re curious what actually NEW in Claude Opus 4.8, here’s the update: https://lnkd.in/eDaDe4Kp Video credit: X/Itakgol
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Phil Parsons reposted thisPhil Parsons reposted thiswhen I spend 1M tokens and the <div> still isn't centered
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Phil Parsons shared thisWhat do you get when you mash up Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Pong? I built this game when HTML5 canvas first landed — 15 years on, with a little help from Claude, I finally had time to polish it up and add the leaderboard. If you're super bored this long weekend, see if you can make the top 10 (apologies for my son making that near impossible now). https://lnkd.in/eWyYSD6B
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Phil Parsons reposted thisPhil Parsons reposted thisJoin Nathen Harvey and Justin Reock as they explore how AI is changing our approach to measuring developer productivity. This webinar is hosted by Atlassian, a Silver sponsor of the 2025 DORA report. Register now for the webinar which is streamed on April 23 & 24 in various time zones. https://lnkd.in/eNcSY9VT
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Phil Parsons shared thisWith a SharedWorker we can share a WebSocket connection across multiple browser tabs. Effectively managing connections to the SharedWorker can be tricky but these simple strategies ensure stable and efficient connection handling. https://lnkd.in/eXPjTZaEOptimising WebSocket connections with a SharedWorkerOptimising WebSocket connections with a SharedWorker
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Phil Parsons shared thisCome and join me! High impact work in a great team at a transformational time, guaranteed 👇
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Phil Parsons liked thisPhil Parsons liked thisAnother important milestone in our Transformation! Privileged to be in Belfast to open our new amazing office and spend time with teams across our operations, finance, technology, risk and compliance and HR teams. More than the office itself, what impressed me was the energy, innovation and sense of ownership shown by the people helping shape TP ICAP's future. Belfast teams are playing an increasingly important role in our success, contributing directly to revenue growth, innovation, operational excellence and risk management across a range of critical functions. We are already well advanced in deploying new technology in key areas such as KYC, regulatory reporting, accounts receivable and other core processes, with a clear emphasis on using innovation and AI not just to improve how we work but to transform how teams interact end to end. The physical collocation of teams is a strong accelerator. In doing so we are making our processes smarter, more efficient and more resilient, while giving our people better tools to deliver for clients and the business. Belfast is helping shape how we operate, driving innovation, modernising processes and applying technologies such as cloud and AI to deliver better outcomes across the Group. With that opportunity comes responsibility. Success depends on doing the basics exceptionally well, challenging the status quo, collaborating effectively and maintaining a growth mindset. That's how high-performing teams create lasting value. Our new office reflects our confidence in the future and in the people helping build it. Thank you to everyone who made this possible. I'm excited about what we are achieving together.
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Phil Parsons liked thisIf you're wondering what Gas City is, they're the powerhouse behind Beads now. New version is on the way (I'm using it now) that solves the scaling problems we've struggled with all year, cleverly using a combination backend for scale plus versioning-when-needed. There is no substitute for Beads; no other system has its unique properties that agents universally love, and use for everything they can. As the world finally starts to figure out agentic orchestration next year, Beads is going to skyrocket in importance. I can't say enough great things about Julian Knutsen and Chris Sells, the cofounders of Gas City. But they are both like 6'5" so it is definitely an experience being in an elevator with them. If you're looking for a good gig, I think this just might be it!Phil Parsons liked thisGas City, Inc. is hiring its first engineers. Staff-level, founding equity, no management layer — you'd report to me. Context for those who haven't followed along: Beads and Gas Town are Steve Yegge's work — the open-source stack for running coding agents at scale. Chris Sells and I shepherd those projects: we maintain them and have evolved Gas Town into Gas City, a config-driven agent orchestration platform. Now we're taking the whole stack to the cloud. Staff Engineer, Product & Control Plane — the hosted Beads & Gas City customer experience Staff Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure — the reliable infrastructure everything depends on Staff Forward Deployed Engineer — deploying into production environments and turning what you learn into shipped product How we work, since it's the question I get most: we develop Gas City with Gas City. Agent workflows write the design docs, implement, review, and merge; humans set direction, verify the output, and own the result. Whether a line was typed by you or by an agent isn't the question. Whether it's correct is. What we're looking for: 8+ years building and operating production systems, at least one owned end to end; fluency in how stateful distributed systems fail; and demonstrable leverage from coding agents. Depth in one area and range across the others beats keyword coverage. Remote, US, Pacific overlap. No algorithm interviews — a conversation about your work and one practical session. Merged PRs to our repos bubble you to the top. Full postings: careers.gascity.com If this is you, email me at careers@gascity.com. If it's someone you know, I'd appreciate the intro.Founding Engineer Jobs, Remote (US) - Gas City CareersFounding Engineer Jobs, Remote (US) - Gas City Careers
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Phil Parsons liked thisPhil Parsons liked thisSmall CV tip. Big difference Under each company on your CV... Add one line explaining what they do. Especially if they're not widely known. Hiring managers scan CVs quickly. Don't make them Google your employer. 𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝑆𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒 & 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑝𝑠 One line. Instant context. Make your CV easy to understand.
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Phil Parsons liked thisPhil Parsons liked thisI’m ridiculously late on saying this but time flies - I left my main work home in January (VML) - so it’s time to say goodbye! I got immediately stuck into a few projects rather than make a thing of it, but now I’m up for air I need to say a proper goodbye to the whole Vml family after a whirlwind 12 years and progressive greying beard. VML is full of a genuinely brilliant mix of people, tackling just about every business problem you can imagine. Some tough problems and tricky situations in the mix, but always with a smile and joke along the way which makes that team spirit infectious. So what’s next? I’ve left to join a rabble of brilliant old colleagues on a new adventure. We're helping businesses transform to ai-first across tricky tech and operations flows. There’s tons to talk about here but right now it’s about VML. Thank you VML and what was Wunderman Thompson & Salmon for everything. And to all the amazing people and clients I’ve worked with over the years - I’ll miss you. In a bit!
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