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Woolly Newsletter — Edition #6
Improving skill-creator: Test, measure, and refine Agent Skills, The PERFECT Code Review: How to Reduce Cognitive Load While Improving Quality, The 5 Software Development Trends That Actually Matter in 2026.
★ TOP STORIES THIS WEEK
Anthropic's skill-creator now includes evals, benchmarking, and multi-agent parallel test runs — bringing software testing discipline to AI skill authoring without requiring code. Key insight: evals let you detect when a capability-uplift skill becomes unnecessary because the base model has caught up.
Introduces the PERFECT framework (Purpose, Edge Cases, Reliability, Form, Evidence, Clarity, Taste) to structure code reviews and reduce cognitive load. Balances review value with developer time by prioritizing what truly matters and minimizing subjective opinions that drain productivity.
AI code generation is accelerating but quality is declining. Success in 2026 requires combining AI speed with strict code review, platform engineering discipline, and supply chain security—not just picking better tools.
📖 GOOD READS
Comprehensive guide profiling 50 influential engineering thought leaders across software management, innovation, architecture, education, and diversity/inclusion. Provides practical frameworks for choosing which voices to follow.
The 24 hours of March 23-24, 2026 mark a shift from conversational AI to autonomous agentic systems, driven by OpenClaw's viral adoption and releases of frontier models (GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1, Qwen 3.5). Major breakthroughs include recursive self-improving AI (DGM), corporate restructuring around AI-first strategies, and economic revaluation of AI investments.