2026-02-08

crawshaw-eight-more-months-agents - Agent Programming Year in Review

David Crawshaw (building exe.dev) reflects on a year of coding with agents. Key takeaway: models improved from writing 1/4 to 9/10 of his code, IDEs are waning (back to Vi), frontier models are essential, and software needs to change shape. "By far the worst product I had to use every day in this new world were clouds, so that's what I'm building over at exe.dev." New philosophy: build what programmers love because every customer has an agent.

openspec.dev - Spec-Driven Framework for AI Agents

Lightweight, universal planning layer for coding agents (23k GitHub stars). Produces spec deltas so you can review intent, not just code. Works natively with 20+ tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.). Open source, no API keys. Install: npm install -g @fission-ai/openspec@latest