Newsletter #1
This is the first issue of the re:cinq newsletter. Every two weeks we'll share what we wrote, what we're building, what's happening in our community, and a few things we thought were worth reading.
You might have noticed we look a bit different. We rebranded: read the full story on the blog.
01 · From the blog
What we've been writing about
We wrote a lot over the past few weeks. Here are some of the pieces we're featuring this time.
Wave: Bringing Determinism Back to AI-Assisted DevelopmentBy Michael CzechowskiA CLI tool that defines AI coding pipelines as YAML files. Each step validates its output against a schema before handing off to the next. About 95% of Wave’s code was written by Claude using Wave itself.
Lore: Shared Context Infrastructure for Claude CodeBy Michael MuellerAn open-source MCP server that gives AI coding agents shared context across an entire org, with persistent semantic memory and a knowledge graph of how repos depend on each other.
How We Moved 100 Developers to Agentic Coding in Six WeeksBy Daniel JonesWorking with Odevo: one developer shipped a mobile app that had been stalled for 18 months, in three days. PR throughput across the cohorts went up between 53% and 87%.
Simple Tools, Smarter AgentsBy BogdanMapping REST APIs into MCP tools one-to-one is expensive. Bogdan consolidated 150 tools into 8 and cut context usage by 98%.Wave and Lore are both open source, if you want to try them: Wave on GitHub and Lore on GitHub.
02 · Podcast
Jaime Jorge on code quality when AI agents write the code
Our latest Waves of Innovation episode features Jaime Jorge, COO of Codacy, on how engineering teams can maintain code quality when AI agents are writing most of the code. He covers combining deterministic quality gates with AI capabilities, relevant alongside the Wave post above.
Listen to the episode
03 · Community
What's happening in our community
AI Native Netherlands hosted its biggest meetup yet at Miro's Amsterdam office: 240 RSVPs, and the community crossed 1,100 members within a year. Three talks covered AI governance in banking, architecture drift from AI agents, and why engineering fundamentals matter more in AI-native systems. Read the recap
Next meetup: May 7 at Adyen, Amsterdam. Already 200+ RSVPs.
Register hereWe're sponsoring AI Native Devcon 2026, where our head of product Daniel Jones will be speaking. Our CEO is also speaking at DevWorld 2026 about AI Native: The Next Revolution after Cloud Native.
04 · Open source
shift-log saves your agents' conversations in Git
Besides Wave and Lore (linked above), we recently released shift-log, a tool that saves coding agents' conversations in Git Notes automatically. 43 stars and growing.
See it on GitHub05 · Interesting reads
Articles we thought were interesting
- Trust.org's 2025 AI Company Data Initiative report 90% of companies still have no formal AI governance framework.
- Stack Overflow's latest Developer Survey puts daily AI coding tool usage at 84% of developers, but only 29% trust AI-generated code in production without review.
06 · Free to grab
From Cloud Native to AI Native
From Cloud Native to AI NativeOur book is free for now.Download it hereIf anything sparked a thought or you have feedback, reply to this email. We read everything. This newsletter is still in its early stages and we're refining the format as we go.
The re:cinq team
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