Software engineer Neil Kakkar reports shipping 200+ pull requests per month at AI-native startup Tano, roughly 11x his PostHog rate and about tenfold his earlier output. He attributes the jump to AI agents replacing code review and communication overhead, while flagging new costs like context thrashing, lost shared context, and AI plan limits.
Compound engineering, the AI-native engineering philosophy, has expanded its core loop from four steps to eight, adding Ideate and Brainstorm at the front and Polish at the end. The original loop—brainstorm, work, review, compound—remains the core engineering cycle, but the update reflects where human attention now goes: deciding what to build and judging whether the finished product feels right.
Vapi Blog interviews Cartesia's Iz Shalom on choosing between integrated and open modular voice AI stacks. Integrated stacks suit narrow use cases and fast proofs of concept, while open stacks fit multiple use cases, multilingual support, and swapping components. The piece urges teams to measure P99 latency in their own environment and build tight evaluations before production.