What shipped in agentic coding over the past two weeks, and what a solo engineer should change.https://engineerofone.com/https://engineerofone.com/journal/anthropics-merges-passed-30-000-a-day-and-source-control-became-the-wait-find-wh/https://engineerofone.com/journal/anthropics-merges-passed-30-000-a-day-and-source-control-became-the-wait-find-wh/Anthropic moved its monorepo off git onto an in-house system after agents multiplied its merges. GitLab answered by keeping Git.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://engineerofone.com/journal/removing-a-todo-rarely-comes-with-a-test-for-it-ask-your-agent-for-one/https://engineerofone.com/journal/removing-a-todo-rarely-comes-with-a-test-for-it-ask-your-agent-for-one/A new ESEM 2026 study finds 3.4% of TODO and FIXME removals add a test aimed at the debt. Before an agent clears your list, set a fail-before, pass-after rule.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://engineerofone.com/journal/copilots-default-switch-lands-october-22-decide-what-your-reviewer-turns-on-befo/https://engineerofone.com/journal/copilots-default-switch-lands-october-22-decide-what-your-reviewer-turns-on-befo/On October 22, GitHub applies a default policy to eligible Copilot features you left unconfigured, including code review and MCP servers.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://engineerofone.com/journal/branch-per-agent-review-is-the-bottleneck/https://engineerofone.com/journal/branch-per-agent-review-is-the-bottleneck/Claude Code projects now give each thread its own branch and copy of the repo. Parallel agents are easy now. Review is the constraint. A merge gate for a team of one.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://engineerofone.com/journal/one-instruction-file-for-every-agent/https://engineerofone.com/journal/one-instruction-file-for-every-agent/Claude Code now falls back to AGENTS.md when no CLAUDE.md is found up the tree. How to keep one instruction file for every agent, and the catches to check first.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT