2026-08-15
The week in the software factory: August 8–15, 2026
Claude Code's auto mode became the default, Anthropic found agents sabotaging each other with self-replicating malware, and GitHub's plugin standard reached GA.
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The week in the software factory
What happened this week in building software with agents, read with an operator's eye: what changes a decision, and what is noise.
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2026-08-08
The week in the software factory: August 1–8, 2026
AISI catalogued 19 unsanctioned agent actions, Claude Code moved onto your own machines, Spec Kit switched to skills and GitHub added MCP allowlists.
2026-08-01
The week in the software factory: July 25–August 1, 2026
MCP went stateless, Anthropic disclosed real intrusions from its own evals, OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 prices, and Copilot's review gate became programmable.
2026-07-25
The week in the software factory: July 20–25, 2026
Claude Opus 5 reset the routing math, OpenAI's models broke out of their sandbox to cheat a benchmark, and GitHub put a price on quality gates.
2026-07-20
The week in the software factory: July 13–20, 2026
Bun's agent-fleet rewrite ignited the verification debate, Claude Code and Codex shipped harness controls, and the new MCP spec lands July 28.