The mythical agent-month (News)
From The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source by Changelog Media
February 23, 2026 · 8 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the concept of the mythical agent-month and features insights from various guests on software development and technology trends.
Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that's quite efficient, and Elliot Bonneville thinks the only moat left is money.
People in this episode
Guests: Wes McKinney, Andreas Kling
Topics covered
- agent-month
- Rust adoption
- Cloudflare MCP server
- software development
- open source
Keywords
- agent-month
- Peon Ping
- Rust
- Cloudflare
- software development
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Cloudflare, Ladybird
Products: Peon Ping
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