[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":78},["ShallowReactive",2],{"issue-690":3},{"favorite":4,"culture":16,"peopleware":45,"inspirational":67},[5],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":9,"label":10,"title":11,"url":12,"domain":13,"summary":14,"timeToRead":15},"Issue 690 - 13th Feb 2026",690,"13th Feb 2026",1770911768,"favorite","Something Big Is Happening","https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002Fmattshumer\\_\u002Fstatus\u002F2021256989876109403?s=12&t=zT\\_i0Rm3CojVoNUtDWHKbQ","x.com","It's fun to see how the industry (and the world) changes, and how perspectives here vary and real-life experience changes. Personalized software will increase (software you build for yourself or for your family and friends), there is no doubt in that. Standards and scale don't appear at this stage. Fixes are trivial. Generated tests mean absolutely nothing (they're terrible), yet you don't care much. No doubt the technology will continue to mature, and with that, our ability to build scalable software. Stop seeing yourself as a \"coder,\" \"designer,\" or \"product manager,\" and go back to the roots: \"I'm a builder.\" Put your curiosity to find leverage, not to judge your (yesterday’s) role in it.",12,[17,24,32,39],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":18,"label":19,"title":20,"url":21,"domain":13,"summary":22,"timeToRead":23},1770912165,"funny!","“Don’t Worry, There Will Still Be Great Jobs Even When AI Automates Everything.” the Jobs:","https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002Fmattturck\u002Fstatus\u002F2020989881065865688","My humble effort to help you start the weekend with a smile.",1,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":25,"label":26,"title":27,"url":28,"domain":29,"summary":30,"timeToRead":31},1770910864,"culture","AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FFeb\u002F9\u002Fai-intensifies-work\u002F","simonwillison.net","We'll see the type of behaviors Simon Willison covers here happening more and more. People are going back to time and energy management. With new tools, your focus should be on what to work on and why. It will be to squeeze 3-4 hours of great deep work, versus cramming 9 to 12 hours thinking you're productive. Work yields more work. Deep work, with high leverage (why and what, not how), will yield 20 hours of agentic execution that help you promote your vision at a speed beyond imagination, to where technology was just 12 months ago.",3,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":33,"label":26,"title":34,"url":35,"domain":36,"summary":37,"timeToRead":38},1770911640,"Context Graphs, One Month In","https:\u002F\u002Fashugarg.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fcontext-graphs-one-month-in","ashugarg.substack.com","Capturing your research and planning phases as artifacts alongside the output (e.g., code or design) will be critical. Companies that conduct Design Reviews and Architecture Decision Records already see some of the value in capturing it. It will need to go deeper to truly capture complex dependencies, data schemas, and many small modifications and nuances for data-intensive or mission-critical products. Extensive tribal knowledge will be an organizational smell you'll need to deal with, like Tech Debt.",8,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":40,"label":26,"title":41,"url":42,"domain":43,"summary":44,"timeToRead":38},1770911325,"2026: The Biggest Year of M&A in History?","https:\u002F\u002Fsubstack.com\u002Finbox\u002Fpost\u002F186354788","substack.com","\"Contrast that with private AI companies: they can spend freely to capture market share, while public companies must find efficiencies first, battle internal resistance, navigate regulatory constraints, and deliver returns every quarter. This helps explain why, despite enormous potential, enterprise AI adoption remains “at the very beginning,” as Ben notes.\" -- Interesting context on the market in 2026, given the changes AI creates for different types of companies.",[46,54,61],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":47,"label":48,"title":49,"url":50,"domain":51,"summary":52,"timeToRead":53},1770910661,"peopleware","Good CISO \u002F Bad CISO","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.philvenables.com\u002Fpost\u002Fgood-ciso---bad-ciso","philvenables.com","I like the format of Good X \u002F Bad X to provide clarity on the role and what to look for when hiring. If you're in the process of hiring a CISO or considering whether or not you need one, this is the post for you.",5,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":55,"label":48,"title":56,"url":57,"domain":58,"summary":59,"timeToRead":60},1770910619,"Making Codebases Agent Ready (Video)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=ShuJ_CN6zr4","youtube.com","This is a pragmatic video to watch if you're considering how to start shifting your codebase,  development environment, and production environment (aka SDLC) to support agentic development. The better you become at verification, the faster you can iterate on changes. Figure out how to set up different verification mechanisms and how to control your rollouts to production so you can continue delivering deterministic value to your users while moving faster.",15,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":62,"label":48,"title":63,"url":64,"domain":13,"summary":65,"timeToRead":66},1769711748,"You Have 12 Shots in Life","https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002F13yearoldvc\u002Fstatus\u002F1950276106323664949?s=12&t=zT_i0Rm3CojVoNUtDWHKbQ","This is a powerful framing to use when considering where to put your energy and talent to work: \"Each shot should expand your capabilities, compound your relationships, create lasting artifacts and position you for better future shots. Your shots should get bigger as you get better. They're all part of the same game - creating beautiful, impactful work that makes you feel like you've truly lived.\"",7,[68,74],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":69,"label":70,"title":71,"url":72,"domain":13,"summary":73,"timeToRead":23},1770912216,"inspirational","I'm increasingly convinced that burnout doesn't come from working long hours or weekends. Burnout comes from working on things that drain your energy with people that do the same.","https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002FSahilBloom\u002Fstatus\u002F2020845553911779691","",{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":75,"label":70,"title":76,"url":77,"domain":13,"summary":73,"timeToRead":23},1770912436,"a minute spent in design\u002Farchitecture is worth 10-100 minutes of code review time","https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002Fdexhorthy\u002Fstatus\u002F2020893453182455835",1786100465145]