The mythical agent-month (News)

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  What up, nerds?

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  I'm Jared and this is Change Log News for the week of Monday, February 23rd, 2026.

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  Today we have some Change Log News news.

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  I'm sure Adam's changelog news will be great.

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  Okay, let's get into this week's news.

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  The Mythical Agent Month Wes McKinney has been wondering what many of us have been wondering.

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  Quote, For now, Wes feels needed,

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  but with things changing so rapidly he wonders how much software engineering's past will inform software engineering's future.

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  With that in mind, he decided to revisit one of his and my favorite books on the topic,

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  Fred Brooks's The Mythical Man Month.

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  In so doing,

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  Wes discovered that the book's themes are still highly relevant in agentic software and that its follow-up,

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  No Silver Bullet, predicts the exact problem he's having in his agentic engineering.

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