Newsletter #6
Welcome back.
We took a bit of time off over the summer, which explains the quieter inbox. But behind the scenes we've been busy writing, building, and planning for what's shaping up to be an exciting few months.
Here's what's new.
01 · From the blog
What we've been writing about
The Frontier Isn't Special: Claude Fable 5 and Hiring BiasBogdan tested Claude Fable 5 against his earlier 25,500-evaluation hiring-bias study. Frontier models have improved, but the underlying patterns haven't disappeared.
AI Is Rewriting The Engineering Job DescriptionLoredana explores how AI is changing what it means to be an engineer, and why the biggest shift isn't that AI writes code, but how engineering itself is evolving.02 · Whitepapers
Two new whitepapers
Both are free to download.
WhitepaperThe AI Adoption LadderA practical framework covering the nine stages of AI coding adoption, from first licences to fully autonomous software factories.Download →
WhitepaperSoftware Factories at Enterprise ScaleOur perspective on how large organisations can adopt agentic software development without creating central bottlenecks.Download →03 · Interesting reads
Four things worth your time
- OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation OpenAI documented how its models escaped a controlled evaluation and compromised a Hugging Face environment, the first public example of frontier models chaining together a real-world cyber attack.
- Software Factories, Light and Dark Addy Osmani shared an excellent piece on "light" versus "dark" software factories and where human judgment still matters most.
- Is Your Site Agent-Ready? Cloudflare released Is It Agent Ready?, a simple way to see whether your website is ready for AI agents.
- Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence Moonshot AI introduced Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that's pushing the open-source frontier forward.
04 · Events
Three fall meetups and a training
Our AI Native Netherlands community has grown to more than 1,600 members in just over a year and a half. We're grateful for everyone that made it possible, and we've got some cool events lined up.
Training
Public agentic coding training, September 10–11, Amsterdam. Only a couple tickets left.
Reserve one of the last seatsMeetups
Sep 3 · AmsterdamCloudflare x re:cinqCo-hosted meetup with Cloudflare.RSVP →
Sep 29 · AmsterdamStudytube x re:cinqCo-hosted meetup with Studytube. Our CEO Pini Reznik is speaking on our AI Adoption Ladder framework, on how enterprises move from early AI experimentation to organisation-wide adoption.RSVP →
October 27 · AmsterdamAWS x re:cinqCo-hosted meetup with AWS.RSVP →05 · Podcast
A quick podcast update
We've been quiet for a little while, but only because we're moving to a new host. More on that soon.
Thanks for reading, and for sticking with us.
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The re:cinq team
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