Why Linus is right, more on the state of AI agents (a favourite topic of mine), and an interesting looking alternative to Laravel. Have an awesome week everyone!
Query Builder v5 - Two Years of Technical Debt, 80 Closed Issues, and a Fundamental Rethinking
Link: https://signoz.io/blog/query-builder-v5/
“If we must make a decision, it should be the least surprising one possible”. Yes! Linus constantly talking about not breaking userland is spot on for product design, API design, everything. Don’t violate the expectations your audience has!
How Coding Agents Actually Work: Inside OpenCode
Link: https://cefboud.com/posts/coding-agents-internals-opencode-deepdive/
A really cool breakdown on how these things work. They’re a classic ‘build it in a weekend’ project that turns into significantly more than you expected! The individual blocks are simple enough - LLM APIs, tool calls, prompts - but then you get into the weeds of it.
Having Kids Has Been Far Easier and Better than I Expected
Link: https://blog.nateliason.com/p/having-kids-easier-better
As a dad of 3, I love this. If anyone out there is on the fence about having kids, jump in. You’re never ready, but if you let it, it will reshape you as a person.
The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management - nilenso blog
Link: http://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/
English is not a good medium for explaining exactly what you want a program to do. With experience, you ‘know’ what a good unit of work looks like, but it’s a difficult skill to teach. You can sense when something feels too big or too vague, but trying to articulate why is tough. It’s a sixth sense that you get from reps.
No more down migrations — Tempest
Link: https://tempestphp.com/blog/migrations-in-tempest-2
I also don’t like down migrations. Wiping and re-seeding feels more logical and consistent to me. I don’t think I’ve once performed a down migration in production, and during development I’d much rather just nuke everything and seed it back to where I need it. As a side note, Tempest looks really cool! PHP is so back.