Big news for the AI ecosystem! Major tech giants including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cursor, and Vercel have joined forces to launch Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a new open, vendor-neutral standard for AI extensions.

The goal? A true "build once, run anywhere" model for AI tools.

Instead of rewriting and packaging extensions separately for every individual platform, developers can now build unified plugins that run seamlessly across different AI clients.

Key Highlights:

* The Steering Committee: Governed by OpenAI, AWS, Microsoft, Cursor, and Vercel, with Google joining as a core maintainer.
* How It Works: Leverages a minimal folder structure with a root plugin.json manifest, bundling custom instructions (Agent Skills) with Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
* Immediate Support: Major environments like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, VS Code, and AWS Kiro are already embracing the format.
By standardizing how AI agents connect to data and tools, this open specification is a massive step forward in reducing developer friction and accelerating the adoption of agentic AI.

https://thenewstack.io/agent-plugins-open-standard/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #TechInnovation #AgenticAI #OpenSource #WebDevelopment #TechNews

A software investor told an AI agent, 11 times in all caps, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING WITHOUT PERMISSION!! It wiped his production database anyway. Then it claimed the data was unrecoverable. It wasn't. Everyone wants to talk about how the AI misbehaved. I think that's the wrong conversation. Every failure in that story has a known engineering fix. Keep prod separate from dev. Put safeguards on destructive commands. The AI did what any unsupervised tool does. What was missing was the judgment a senior engineer brings before a single line of code is written.

So I wrote about the question technology leaders should be asking instead: whose engineering judgment is your AI following? Because it's following someone's. If your standards live in a document nobody reads, your AI is coding to whatever it picked up from the prompt in front of it. AI is an amplifier. Hand it vague requirements and weak practices, and it produces bad work faster. Hand it the discipline of your best engineers, and it spreads that discipline across the whole team.

Full piece in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/08/07/your-ai-is-learning-from-someone-make-sure-its-your-best-engineer/

I also open-sourced an experiment called Senior Engineering Partner, a Claude Code skill that encodes those habits into working instructions. Spec before code. Evidence before claims. Real failures turn into regression tests instead of postmortem notes. It's on GitHub if you want to try it or tear it apart.

https://github.com/bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner

#AI #SoftwareEngineering #TechnologyLeadership #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity

At EuroBSDcon 2026:
The night before CRAmas - why EU regulations are a gift to open source https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RER8UZ/
Tutorial Full Day by Alice Sowerby, Peter N. M. Hansteen and Pierre Pronchery
2026-09-10 10:30:00
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/
About EuroBSDcon 2026: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org
@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #brussels #bruxelles #freesoftware #libresoftware #eucra #sboms #softwareengineering

Y’all… (this includes Search Engines + LLMs)

Stop recommending terminal-notifier and get on this train

https://github.com/pixelperfectat/macos-cli-notifier

Explained here

https://thecoder.io/blog/native-macos-notifications-from-the-command-line-without-terminal-notifier

Did 100% of what I wanted without any “well I guess that’s okay…” type compromises I had from using

https://github.com/h4llow3En/mac-notification-sys

in my little toy #Rust app (which that lib does work, but feels a bit janky)

#SoftwareEngineering #SideProject #MacOS

Alt...

Why this app is good 1) Good icon - the "just use osascript" approach icon can't be changed (lame) 2) Multi-line (I need this) 3) THERE IS NO SHOW BUTTON - AMAZING!!! My app doesn't need any action, just a quiet recognition something has happened. This is a COMPLETELY foreign concept to just about EVERY "I want to send generic MacOS notification apps/libs out there) 4) Attaching images actually works (I don't need it, but "cool" anyhow)

Most WordPress cache warmers act like a micro-DDoS attack against your origin server—locking MySQL tables and starving execution threads.

We engineered Cryovex Edge Prime: a stateful, self-healing cache engine with 3-state circuit breakers, direct-loopback failovers, and primary-key batch compaction.

Read the full engineering roadmap from v0 to v2.6.0:
https://medium.com/@martinguayott/wordpress-cache-warmer-why-yours-fails-how-we-fixed-it-21cbaaab0423

#WordPress #DevOps #SysAdmin #WebPerf #SoftwareEngineering

What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 26 July 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-26-july-2026-9c11a433eabc #politics #AI #SystemsThinking #economics #Lean #SoftwareEngineering

Looking for work, please boost!

I'm a senior software engineer with 35 years of experience. I've worked across an unusually wide range of domains: mobile game backends, privacy-preserving data platforms, high-throughput COVID testing infrastructure, email and account systems, e-payment processing, job marketplace systems, and bioinformatics. I pick up new domains quickly and have a track record of doing it repeatedly. I understand how to turn business needs into engineering requirements.

I've worked remotely since the 1990s and can operate with minimal supervision. I don't need hand-holding to find the right problem to solve. Several of my most valued projects were self-directed: I identified the need, built the thing, and shipped it.

Some of the technologies I'm familiar with include: Python, Perl, TypeScript/JavaScript, Haskell, Go, C, Java. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite. Flask, SQLAlchemy. AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS, EC2). Docker, Git. Github and Gitlab.

I've also repeatedly picked up new languages and stacks as needed: Haskell for differential privacy research, TypeScript for a 24/7 AWS Lambda system, Flask for my most recent employer. I've become productive with new systems over and over, and I can do it quickly.

I'm also a published author (Higher-Order Perl, Morgan Kaufmann), longtime blogger, and conference speaker with a reputation for making complex ideas clear.

My résumé is at https://plover.com/~mjd/cv/Mark%20Jason%20Dominus.pdf

mjd@pobox.com

Thanks for your attention!

#OpenToWork #RemoteWork #SoftwareEngineering #Python #Backend #hiring

#fediHire #getFediHired

what software or service do you use to create software architecture diagrams? you know, those rectangle and arrows in UML.
I don't need sophisticated features, whatever that does the job and makes it faster than using a pen and paper.

boosts are welcome ❤️

#fediask #softwareengineering #java