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The Hybrid Team
How the delivery team itself changes once agents become part of it.
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Towards an AI Native Operating Model
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The Frontier Isn't Special: Claude Fable 5 and Hiring Bias
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What we found
45 in 100
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25,500 LLM screenings · Issue #4
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Sam Newman on why AI can’t fix your production incidents yet
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AI Native DevCon
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· Hamburg
code.talks
Sponsor. Pini spoke, then signed books with Michael
· Utrecht
Dutch Cloud Native Day
Pini spoke on AI Native platforms
· Copenhagen
Future Product Days
Sponsor; keynote with Odevo
· Amsterdam
Pattern Cards workshop
Diagnosing an AI Native transformation
Where you’ll find us next
· Zurich
Agentic Engineering Days Zurich 2026
Pini’s talk: “From Copilot to the Dark Factory”. Silver sponsor.
· Amsterdam
AI-Native Engineering: Coding Agents, Memory & Collaboration
Our last meetup of the year, with BlueDolphin and Xebia.
· Berlin
CASE 2027
Two days on building software with AI agents as teammates. Sponsor.
· London
AI for the rest of us
Practical, jargon-free AI across four tracks. Sponsor.
· Barcelona
KubeBoat 2027
The boat party the night before KubeCon Europe. Gold sponsor.
· Nuremberg
AXDN//27
Pini on the AI Adoption Ladder, in the AI for Engineers track.
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#1 Amazon bestsellerBook · free · Issue #1From Cloud Native to AI Native
The patterns, pitfalls and anti-patterns technology leaders need to guide the shift to AI Native.
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The AI Adoption Ladder
Nine stages of AI coding adoption, and the bottleneck at each one.
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Software Factories at Enterprise Scale
The operating model and six capabilities every software factory needs at scale.
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re:cinq NewsletterNewIssue #9
We mapped 148 tools for building a software factory
- 01New We mapped 148 tools for building a software factory
- 02Podcast Patrick Debois: Your Software Factory Should Be a Dream Factory
- 03Team Meet Saad and Felix
- 04From the blog Four new posts
- 05Events AI Native NL #14 at Xebia
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Issue #8
Sam Newman on why AI can't fix your production incidents (yet)
- 01Podcast Sam Newman on resilience engineering when AI builds your software
- 02Team New faces around re:cinq
- 03From the blog What we've been writing about
- 04Knowledge base A few terms we've been adding
- 05Community Meetups and events
3 min readRead - re:cinq Newsletter
Issue #7
Steve Yegge on running 50 agents
- 01From the blog What we've been writing about
- 02Podcast Introducing Rethink Engineering
- 03Knowledge base 85 AI native terms, and growing
- 04Events Three upcoming meetups
- 05Careers We're hiring
4 min readRead - re:cinq Newsletter
Issue #6
We're back: two new whitepapers, three fall meetups, and how AI is reshaping engineering roles
- 01From the blog What we've been writing about
- 02Whitepapers Two new whitepapers
- 03Interesting reads Four things worth your time
- 04Events Three fall meetups and a training
- 05Podcast A quick podcast update
3 min readRead - re:cinq Newsletter
Issue #5
When prompts aren't enough for AI reliability
- 01From the blog What we've been writing about
- 02Open source ai-agent-subsystem
- 03Interesting reads Five things worth your time
- 04Events Three events lined up
- 05Training Public agentic coding training
3 min readRead - re:cinq Newsletter
Issue #4
25,500 LLM evaluations on hiring bias, DevCon London recap, and the leadership problem
- 01From the blog What we've been writing about
- 02Community What's happening in our community
- 03Training Public agentic coding training, September 10–11, Amsterdam
- 04Interesting reads Articles we thought were interesting
- 05Coming up What we're working on
4 min readRead - re:cinq Newsletter
Issue #3
72x faster software delivery, AI Native DevCon, and training an AI on a €250 GPU
- 01Training Now booked: Public agentic coding training, Amsterdam, 10–11 September
- 02From the blog What we've been writing about
- 03Podcast 72x Faster Software Delivery with a Former AI Skeptic
- 04Community What's happening in our community
- 05Open source hiring-bias
3 min readRead - re:cinq Newsletter
Issue #2
The spec is the attack surface, the velocity ceiling, and the Odevo case study
- 01From the blog What we've been writing about
- 02Podcast Scaling AI Enablement: How Odevo Upskilled Engineering
- 03Community What's happening in our community
- 04Open source Wave v0.268.0 and pipeline-evolve
- 05Interesting reads Agent skills come to the GitHub CLI
- 06Training Public agentic coding training
- 07Free to grab A non-technical book on AI
4 min readRead - re:cinq Newsletter
Issue #1
New brand, Wave, and Lore
- 01From the blog What we've been writing about
- 02Podcast Jaime Jorge on code quality when AI agents write the code
- 03Community What's happening in our community
- 04Open source shift-log saves your agents' conversations in Git
- 05Interesting reads Articles we thought were interesting
- 06Free to grab From Cloud Native to AI Native
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