Newsletter #2
Hope you've been doing well. The past two weeks at re:cinq have been busy ones, and there's a lot we're excited to share with you. Let's get into it.
01 · From the blog
What we've been writing about
The Spec Is the Attack SurfaceMichael Czechowski wrote about a security problem specific to agentic coding workflows: specs, requirements documents, GitHub issues, and dependency READMEs are all injection vectors when an agent treats them as trusted instructions. The post argues for sandboxed execution and governance over what agents are authorised to read.
Engineering Velocity Is Unlocked. Now What?When AI adoption takes hold in an engineering org, velocity unlocks, and the constraint moves. PM cycles, QA capacity, and code review become the bottleneck where engineering output used to be. We wrote about what that transition looks like in practice, and why organisations that restructure those delivery-adjacent functions before the velocity arrives fare better.
Why We Teach Agentic Coding BackwardsWe wrote about how we sequence our agentic coding training. We teach failure modes first (hallucinations, context pollution, MCP server limitations) before showing what the tools do well. Developers who understand why agents fail hold up better when tools underperform in production settings.
02 · Podcast
Scaling AI Enablement: How Odevo Upskilled Engineering
Our latest Waves of Innovation episode features Tomasz Maj, Head of Product Ops at Odevo, on how Odevo structured the AI training programme behind the case study below, from the cohort design to rolling AI tools out to non-engineers.
Listen to the episode03 · Community
What's happening in our community
Recap: AI Native Netherlands at Adyen
Last Thursday we hosted the 9th edition of AI Native Netherlands at Adyen in Amsterdam. More than 100 of you showed up, the talks were great, and the feedback we've had since has been excellent. Thanks to Adyen for sponsoring us, and contributing to the Dutch engineering community.
Coming up: the 10th edition at Yuma
The 10th edition is already coming up, this time at Yuma. There are only 120 spots and they fill up fast, so RSVP early. Great talks lined up, and thanks to Yuma for sponsoring.
RSVP hereWe're always looking for sponsors and speakers for future editions. If you'd like to host one or speak at one, reach out.
The Odevo case study is live
The Odevo case study is also live. It covers the six-week AI-native bootcamp with Odevo's 100 engineers, including the full cohort data on agentic coding adoption, developer sentiment before and after, and what changed inside the org. One team shipped a mobile app that had been stalled for 18 months, in three days.
Read the case study04 · Open source
Wave v0.268.0 and pipeline-evolve
Wave shipped v0.268.0 this week. The headline addition is pipeline-evolve: a meta-pipeline that ingests Wave's own evaluation history, classifies failure patterns across runs, and proposes an improved pipeline YAML as a PR. A human reviews and approves before any change is adopted. Wave is using its own pipeline infrastructure to improve its own pipelines.
See it on GitHub05 · Interesting reads
Agent skills come to the GitHub CLI
- GitHub shipped gh skill a new CLI command for discovering, installing, and managing agent skills from GitHub repositories. Works with Claude Code, Copilot, and Cursor. Includes version pinning and provenance tracking built into skill files.
06 · Training
Public agentic coding training
We're working on a public version of the agentic coding training we've run with teams like Odevo, and we're gauging interest to decide where and when to run the first cohort. Two days, in-person, capped at 15 engineers. Dates and city still TBD based on demand.
Register your interest07 · Free to grab
A non-technical book on AI
A Thousand Small ChangesFor the non-technical people in your organisation who are interested to learn more about AI: Pini, our CEO, wrote a short non-technical book that walks readers through how AI works and where it’s already changing how organisations operate. It’s aimed at people who want to take part in conversations about AI without a technical background.Download the bookIf anything in here sparked a thought, reply to this email. We read everything. This newsletter is still in its early stages and we're refining the format as we go.
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