A multi-day outage tied to Microsoft's Exchange Online authentication system continues to disrupt Outlook and other Microsoft 365 services into Tuesday, even after Monday's mitigation efforts. Microsoft says the root cause was a misconfiguration preventing authentication components from deploying properly across parts of its infrastructure, affecting SharePoint, Teams, Copilot, Defender XDR, Purview, the admin center, and Universal Print alongside Outlook.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-01
Marty Lamb argues that as coding agents drive the cost of writing software toward zero, the deeper skill of understanding that code is quietly becoming optional. He warns that offloading writing, review, and testing to AI lets developers skip building the mental models that manual coding used to force on them by default.
martiansoftware.com
· 2026-08-31
A software engineer describes a personal experiment begun in February where they stopped writing code manually and instead relied entirely on AI coding agents like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code to implement changes. The account traces how tooling evolved from simple autocomplete suggestions to agents capable of editing multiple files from a single natural-language description, sharply reducing the amount of typing required.
blog.exe.dev
· 2026-08-27
Microsoft has shipped the first official release of the Agent Lightning Skill, a tool that helps coding agents systematically improve other AI agents. Users supply an editable agent and a benchmark, and the skill guides iterative changes to prompts, tools, workflows, models, and reasoning settings. It installs directly into Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot via a simple CLI command.
github.com
· 2026-08-24
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