ISSUE 507
Engineering Is No Longer a Craft

"The new default is that you are not writing the code directly 99% of the time, you are orchestrating agents who do and acting as oversight."

— Andrej Karpathy, who last year this time popularized the term “vibe coding” on the future of the LLM-assisted coding. Read the full story.

GitLab CEO on why AI isn’t helping enterprises ship code faster

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we sat down with Staples to discuss why coding was never the real bottleneck, how GitLab’s newly GA’ed Duo Agent Platform aims to automate the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), and why context, and not just code generation, is the key to making agentic AI work in the enterprise.

Week in review: Engineering is no longer a craft.

Is the era of the file browser finally over? Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke thinks so. In a recent interview with The New Stack, Dohmke explained his vision for Entire, a new open-source developer platform he launched this week. As you might expect from a leader like Dohmke, he used bold language in describing a future beyond GitHub.

“We’re moving away from engineering as a craft, where you build code manually and in files and folders — which is effectively what a Git repository was for the last 15 years, right? If you look at any given repo, it’s literally a file browser, and you can click through the files in this search and all that,” Dohmke says. “We are moving from that to a much higher abstraction, which is specifications — reasoning, session logs, intent, outcomes. And we believe that requires a very different developer platform than what GitHub is today.”

Every week, LLM-assisted coding becomes a bigger part of the work developers do to build future solutions. And what Entire may do to enable “higher abstraction” work, as Dohmke says, may result in better outcomes achieved more quickly — even if the “craft” of engineering goes away in favor of something else.

— Nick Lucchesi, editor-in-chief, TNS

IDEcline: How the world’s most powerful coding tools became second-class citizens overnight
The IDE used to be where software happened. In an agent-first workflow, the software is verified and reviewed.

Memory-Safe Jule language emerges as a C/C++ alternative
Jule is an emerging open-source systems language that combines Go's simplicity with C's performance while offering C/C++ interoperability and compile-time safety features.

Why Kubernetes is retiring Ingress NGINX
Kubernetes is pulling the plug on Ingress NGINX in March 2026, and there's no drop-in replacement. Time to start planning—now.

How GSD turns Claude into a self-steering developer

OpenClaw may be flawed, but it shows how limited the available and entrenched digital assistants are compared with what agents can do.

Docker versus Nix: The quest for true reproducibility

Flox has simplified Nix enough to position it as a Docker replacement on Kubernetes, offering finer dependency management.

Unlocking AI’s full potential: Why context is everything

Data 360 turns data into trusted enterprise context—the new currency for accurate, unified, autonomous agents.

Building a self-service developer platform the thoughtful way
March 12 | Virtual

As more organizations move workloads on-premises, demand for a “public cloud-like” experience is driving the adoption of Kubernetes-based internal platforms. In this session hosted by Charles Humble, Broadcom’s Jad El-Zein will show how to automate full-stack Kubernetes deployments with a single git commit.

WASM I/O
March 19-20 | Barcelona, Spain

Join the WebAssembly community from around the world for two days of deep technical sessions. There is no better place to share, discuss, collaborate and socialize with other WebAssembly professionals. WASM I/O 2026 will take place in the beautiful city of Barcelona. Don’t miss the chance to shape the future of WebAssembly!

Google Cloud Next 2026
April 22-24| Las Vegas, NV

Explore the AI and cloud technology, tools, and insights that are making new opportunities possible – even ones that once seemed impossible. Join The New Stack alongside a global community of leaders, thinkers, and doers to share ideas. Immerse yourself in three full days of lightning talks, interactive demos, guided workshops, and more. Plus, get a sneak peek into some of the latest advancements in AI and cloud tech.

How to architect a CI/CD pipeline that really scales
On-demand

In this insightful webinar, we welcomed Harness’ Eric Minick and Stephen Cihak for a spirited discussion on why copying CI/CD templates creates technical debt and leads to operational paralysis. Catch the replay today to learn why the future of DevOps scaling isn’t about copying YAML; it’s about inheriting it.

From our sister site, roadmap.sh

The AI-powered frontend is here!

The frontend landscape is shifting, and roadmap.sh is leading the way. Their newly revamped Frontend Roadmap now reflects AI as an essential part of the workflow. It's no longer about code; it's about how developers can use AI to build smarter and ship faster.

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