Claude + Mobile via MCP: Giving the Model Hands on a Real Phone I plugged in a Pixel two months ago, ran one command in Claude Desktop, and watched it open Maps and start navigation to my home address from a single sentence prompt. It was the first time I'd ever seen a language model physically operate a phone. Latency was about two seconds per action; the part that surprised me was the third st
AI-Native Mobile Testing: What It Actually Means in 2026 The phrase "AI-native" has been thrown around in the testing space since 2019. Almost every tool calling itself that just bolts a language model on top of Appium and ships the same brittle XPath selectors with a new label. That's not AI-native testing. That's Appium with a chatbot. This post is about what AI-native actually has to mean to
The Missing Control Plane for Local AI Agents I sat with my Pixel for 20 minutes trying to get Claude Desktop to dictate a Slack message via accessibility. It was miserable. The model was capable. The transport wasn't. That gap — between an AI that can reason and an AI that can actually do — is what I've been working on with Drengr. This post is the version of the argument I'd give to anyone bui
State of Software Engineering in 2026: A Reality Check Beyond the AI Hype Three and a half years ago, Matt Welsh, PhD and former Google engineer, published "The End of Programming" in Communications of the ACM and declared that classical computer science was over. The meteor had hit. Engineers were the dinosaurs. The state of software engineering in 2026, he implied, would look nothing like what
GitHub Copilot just got a lot more complicated — and not in a good way. If you tried to sign up for Copilot Pro recently and hit a wall, that's not a bug. GitHub quietly paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans starting in late April 2026. No end date announced. No workaround offered. Just a message and a door that won't open. That alone would be worth covering. But they made t