AI for Software Development

How engineering teams use AI in software development: agentic coding, RAG, MCP and spec-driven development, plus what to look for when hiring AI engineers who can build with these tools.

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AI for Software Development

AI Coding Agent Workflow: Jira Ticket to PR

Your Jira board already contains the work your engineering team needs to do. The challenge is turning that work into a safe, reviewable change without adding more coordination overhead. An AI coding agent can help. Given a well-scoped ticket, access to the right repository context, and clear boundaries, it can inspect the codebase, implement a…

Bruno Feitoza Aug 31, 2026 9 min read
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The 7 Layers of AI, Explained for Developers

You have probably seen the diagram: seven boxes stacked from Classical AI at the bottom to AGI at the top, with machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, and agentic AI in between. The diagram is useful. It separates terms that are often blurred together in product conversations. But it also suggests a progression that does…

Julio Lugo Aug 19, 2026 11 min read
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AI in Finance: Use Cases That Work in 2026

Three-quarters of CFOs are raising their technology budgets for 2026, with nearly half increasing spend by 10% or more, according to Gartner. The days of AI in finance being confined to a sandbox pilot are over. The mandate has shifted from “should we build this” to “why hasn’t this shipped yet.” The gap between organizations…

Damian Wasserman Aug 11, 2026 10 min read
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AI in Banking: Use Cases and Talent Gap (2026)

AI in banking is no longer a banking innovation. It is the baseline. The real question in 2026 is whether your engineering team can build, ship, govern, and scale it fast enough. For CTOs and VP Engineering leaders, AI in banking has moved from isolated pilots to production infrastructure across fraud, onboarding, compliance, credit, customer…

Damian Wasserman Jul 14, 2026 9 min read
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RAG With LangChain: Build Your First Pipeline

RAG with LangChain is quickly becoming one of the most useful patterns in a backend engineer’s toolkit. According to the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, RAG and Ollama rank among the top topics developers are actively exploring after adopting tools like Gemini, a clear signal that the field is moving past chatbots and into document-grounded…

Matias Bustamante Jun 29, 2026 10 min read
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Salesforce Agentforce and Agentic AI Explained

Most people have heard of Salesforce. Far fewer can explain what it actually does — let alone what it’s become in the last two years. If you’ve searched “what is Salesforce” expecting a simple answer, here’s the honest version: it started as a CRM in 1999 and became the operational backbone of more than 150,000…

Damian Wasserman Jun 26, 2026 10 min read
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AI Vibe Coding With Cursor and Claude Code

Every developer has had this experience: you describe what you want to an AI model, it generates something that looks right, you run it, and something breaks in a way you didn’t expect. You iterate. It breaks differently. You iterate again. Twenty minutes later you’re not sure if the AI saved you time or cost…

Luiz Lima Jun 22, 2026 15 min read
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