Engineering notes from the field.
Essays and field notes on AI, software engineering, design, and the craft of building product teams that ship. Written by the engineers doing the work.
MIT NANDA: Vendor-Built AI Pilots Succeed 67% vs 33% Internal
MIT Project NANDA found vendor-built enterprise AI pilots succeed 67% versus 33% for internal builds, while IDC and Deloitte pegged failure at 88% and 89%.
Cursor 3 Ships 8 Parallel Agents in Isolated Git Worktrees
Cursor 3 spawns up to 8 AI agents in isolated git worktrees, while Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 dynamic workflows lift the per-run subagent ceiling to 1,000.
Surge AI Tops Scale AI on Revenue: $1.2B vs $870M
Surge AI bootstrapped to $1.2 billion in 2024 revenue, surpassing Scale AI's $870 million by charging up to 10x for frontier-lab RLHF work.
LangGraph Reaches 400 Production Enterprises Including JPMorgan
LangChain's LangGraph orchestration layer now runs in 400 production enterprises including Cisco, Uber, LinkedIn, BlackRock, and JPMorgan.
Google Ships Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think to GA With 2M-Token Context
Google made Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think generally available on June 22, 2026, with a 2-million-token context window and 76.4% on SWE-bench Verified.