Software Moats in the Age of AI: What's Actually Defensible?

May 11, 2026 · Dev.to

Stop Passing req Everywhere — Express Middleware for Request Context Propagation
There's a pattern I've seen in almost every Express codebase I've worked in. It starts small. You need to log a correlat
How I Built an AI Morning Briefing That Runs Itself Every Day
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Before AI learned from massive datasets, many systems worked with explicit knowledge. Facts. Rules. Inference. That is t
My SonarQube scans were crawling; turns out Docker on WSL 2 only had 1 CPU and 1 GB of RAM
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Your AI agents are stepping on each other
The missing coordination primitive. New research (AgenticFlict, arXiv 2604.03551) confirms what a lot of teams are learn