AI: "Human in the Loop" weekly news

 Human in the Loop by Andreas Horn (IBM)

Weekly insights on AI agents, tools, and real-world use cases — for people building and leading in the AI economy.

Vibe Coding Tools 2026 - What to Use, When, Why

• OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI→ OpenAI is doubling down on personal agents by hiring the builder behind the viral open-source assistant, while keeping the project alive as open source under a foundation model. 

tool: PostHog AI

strange name, interesting tool

 PostHog – We make dev tools for product engineers

"We're here to help product engineers build successful products
Literally every piece of SaaS that a product engineer needs.
This includes tools for building products, talking to customers, and making sense of all your customer data.
PostHog is a single platform for people who build things."

"While Salesforce hikes prices 6% annually, PostHog proves there's room for startups that do the exact opposite of what private equity-backed software companies typically do."

SQL: Postgres patterns

good patterns or anti-patterns for db design?

this is quote common now, and for sure is taking more space... 

but it is often useful to have more data;

trouble is that common relational mode does allow update and delete...

and there is no storage optimization.

Life Altering Postgresql Patterns

• Use UUID primary keys
• Give everything created_at and updated_at
• on update restrict on delete restrict
• Use schemas
• Enum tables
• Name your tables singularly
• Mechanically name join tables
• Almost always soft delete
• Represent statuses as a log
• Mark special rows with a system_id
• Use views sparingly
• JSON Queries