Spec-Driven Development in a Modular Monolith — AI Skills, Context, and Change Verification

From Principles to Practice In our previous article, Spec-Driven Development: How to Delegate Implementation to AI Without Losing Control, we covered the fundamentals: specifications, technical plans, task lists, and the rules and skills that guide and constrain AI models. This time, we'll explore how this approach works in a system that has been developed and maintained for years. AI-generated code must work within an existing architecture, alongside established integrations

Sławomir Sobótka discusses how people develop expertise, why experience requires feedback and what AI may change for those learning to build software.

The most important shift in this roundup is not about AI-driven product discovery itself, but about who will decide how budgets are allocated, and on what basis, as the path to purchase becomes harder to reconstruct. Automated bidding and AI agents make the signals fed into advertising systems increasingly important. Yet an easily acquired conversion does not necessarily mean a valuable customer. Measurement therefore cannot serve reporting alone. It must support decisions th

Generating an application is not the same as making it safe for a business to depend on. The harder questions begin when a useful prototype needs shared access, approved business data, reliable deployment and an owner who can maintain it. Oracle’s October 27, 2026 App Composer announcement targets that transition. It describes a path from applications built with Codex and other AI tools to deployment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with organizational permissions and access c

An AI bot visited the site. A model cited a guide. A prospect booked a consultation. Those are separate events, and each answers a different question about whether marketing is working. Imagine a Tuesday meeting with a B2B team. SEO reports more crawler activity. Content reports more citations. The sales director asks, "How many sales opportunities are we getting from this?" Every report may be accurate. The trouble begins when they are framed as consecutive steps in one prov

An AI subscription price is not an infrastructure strategy. For Polish businesses moving from pilots to production, the budget question extends beyond model access to the electricity, cooling and hardware needed to deliver reliable services. PARP’s October 23, 2026 briefing puts these dependencies at the centre of digitalisation planning, connecting resource availability with deployment costs and the pace of expansion. The practical implication is not that every AI service wi

From the first warning to project tasks in 2h 59m, followed by evening patch deployments. How our team responded to critical PHP vulnerabilities, assessed risk and assigned responsibilities.

Clinical AI becomes a different kind of software when it can do more than produce a note. Retrieving information, preparing changes, and writing into an electronic health record introduce a new question: not just whether an answer is accurate, but whether the resulting action is appropriate, authorized, and traceable. The October 22, 2026 announcement of ORBIS Buddy by Dedalus and Corti brings that distinction into focus. Built into Dedalus’ ORBIS electronic health record, Bu

The most important shift this week: a customer can choose a product in one place, buy it somewhere else, and have analytics attribute the sale to yet another channel. Last week, we examined the economics of AI intermediation. Now, PYMNTS research reveals a clear distinction: consumers are moving product search and comparison to assistants faster than they are abandoning familiar shopping platforms. A change in how people discover products does not automatically change who mak

The useful question about classroom AI is no longer whether it can generate a lesson plan. It is whether a teacher can turn that draft into accurate, accessible materials without creating more checking work than the tool removes. A Polish teacher-training announcement makes that challenge concrete. The Powiatowy Ośrodek Doskonalenia Nauczycieli in Wodzisław Śląski scheduled an online workshop for October 19, 2026, focused on ChatGPT, NotebookLM and Diffit. Its advertised agen

You assign 5% of your budget to search partners. The next day, the report shows spend above the calculated amount. Did Google Ads ignore the setting? Not necessarily. These new spend controls are best-effort. Google aims to respect the threshold, yet it does not guarantee that spending will remain below it. Google announced the features on October 14, 2026, with rollout beginning on October 15. They sit between two previous choices: enabling a network or excluding it complete

An AI-generated prototype can demonstrate an idea. Production software must do something harder: behave correctly, respect access boundaries, survive changes, and remain understandable to the people who maintain it. That gap is the practical focus of Poland’s DevAI by Data Science Summit, scheduled online for October 19, 2026, and in Warsaw on October 20. Its agenda brings repository safety, permission boundaries, verification loops, and production failures into the same conv