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Cloudflare Turns Engineering Standards into an AI-Enforced Control System

Craig Risi — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Cloudflare has recently detailed how it is using AI to transform internal engineering standards from passive documentation into an actively enforced control system across the software development lifecycle.

By Craig Risi

InfoQ Opens Enrollment for New AI-Assisted Engineering Online Certification Program

Artenisa Chatziou — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT

InfoQ has opened enrollment for the InfoQ Certified AI-Assisted Engineering Program, a five-week online certification program for senior engineers and architects who already run a coding agent against production code daily, where the open questions have moved past prompting into what the agent is allowed to touch and what catches its mistakes before a human does.

By Artenisa Chatziou

How Code in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Becomes Write-Only and Disposable

Ben Linders — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:25:00 GMT

Artificial intelligence (AI) makes all code write-only,. It’s too dense to read, and tests define the behaviour and become the documentation. Code is also disposable; it becomes easier to rewrite than to debug. Humans can't review AI-generated code at scale. Intent decouples from implementation; developers should focus on creativity.

By Ben Linders

SpaceXAI Launches Grok Bot for Autonomous AI Agents

Daniel Dominguez — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:02:00 GMT

SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, a system of persistent AI agents that operate on dedicated cloud computers and can interact with websites, applications, inboxes, and other tools.

By Daniel Dominguez

Grab Cuts Mechanical Analytics Work from 44% to 30% with AI Agents

Leela Kumili — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:41:00 GMT

Grab is using AI agents to automate analytics workflows, cutting mechanical analyst work from 44% in February to 30% in June. Its approach combines agent autonomy, certified data, context management and human oversight, with self service analytics increasingly handling metric, data and SQL requests without analyst intervention.

By Leela Kumili