Newsletter #7
Welcome back.
Last week, the team came together in Germany for our annual company off-site. Now we're back with plenty to share: new articles, a rebranded podcast, a new knowledge base, and three upcoming community meetups.
01 · From the blog
What we've been writing about
Towards an AI Native Operating ModelPini explores why the real challenge in becoming AI native is changing how an organisation works, not choosing another tool.
Stop Asking It to Judge: Use the LLM to Read, Score in Codea practical follow-up to the Fable 5 hiring-bias work. Let the model extract the evidence, then use clear rules to make the decision.
The Prompt Won't Save You: Three Objections, Three Teststhree common arguments for prompt-only hiring workflows, put to the test.
The Bottleneck in Supply Chain Security Has Movedwhy fixing base images, rather than finding vulnerabilities, has become the hard part of software supply-chain security.02 · Podcast
Introducing Rethink Engineering
Long-time listeners will know the podcast as Waves of Innovation. We've rebranded it as Rethink Engineering: the same spirit, with a clearer focus on how software engineering is changing in the age of AI.
We've also welcomed a new host, Benedikt Stemmildt of hackers&wizards, who will lead the conversations going forward.
The first episode of this new chapter is now live.
Inside Steve Yegge's Software Factory: Lessons from Running 50 Agents
Bene speaks with Steve Yegge about what happens when AI agents move from experiments to real software delivery. Steve shares lessons from building and refining a 50-agent Software Factory, including why clear scope, strong code quality, and gradual adoption matter more than simply adding more agents.
Listen to the episodeMore conversations are already on the way, including episodes with Sam Newman and Patrick Debois.
03 · Knowledge base
85 AI native terms, and growing
We've launched re-cinq.com/topics, a growing library of AI native engineering terms, explained clearly and built to become a useful reference for the community.
Explore topics including:
Agentic codingAGENTS.mdAI productivity paradoxSoftware factorySpec-driven developmentWe want to keep growing it. Have a term you think should be included? Suggest it here, and we may feature it in the knowledge base and a future newsletter.
04 · Events
Three upcoming meetups
Our AI Native Netherlands community has just passed 2,000 members. Here's what's coming up next.
29 September · AmsterdamAI Native NL #12: re:cinq × StudytubePini introduces the AI Adoption Ladder, followed by Aleksei Moiseev of Studytube on when to build an MCP server and when code execution is the better choice.RSVP →
27 October · AmsterdamAI Native NL #13: re:cinq × AWSChristian Melendez of AWS and William Rizzo of Mirantis explore how to choose the right CPU and GPU setup for AI workloads.RSVP →
25 November · AmsterdamAI Native NL #14: re:cinq × XebiaVladislav Ramazaev of BlueDolphin looks at what coding agents retain between sessions, and what they lose. Our final AI Native NL meetup of the year.RSVP →Pini will also be speaking at Dutch Cloud Native Day in Utrecht, on 29–30 October.
See all of the upcoming events we will be attending at re-cinq.com/events.
05 · Careers
We're hiring
re:cinq is growing, and we're looking for Lead AI Native Engineers and Senior AI Native Engineers.
If you want to build Software Factories and lead AI native transformations with medium-sized and large enterprises, we have some exciting projects ahead, and plenty more in the pipeline.
See our open rolesThanks for reading.
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The re:cinq team
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