Niels Berglund

Week 20 tech roundup: Microsoft's Aspire team learns that AI makes production cheaper but maintenance harder, Perplexity reveals how they design and maintain agent skills at scale, and a sharp essay argues agentic coding is a cognitive trap.

Week 10 tech roundup: Netflix battles kernel-level mount lock contention at scale, Confluent explores autonomous data systems for real-time decisioning, Steve Yegge federates a thousand Gas Towns into the Wasteland, and Anthropic's Skill-Creator plugin brings rigorous testing to agent skills.