The Stack Quarterly Newsletter

Stack Quarterly publishes a newsletter on the same cadence as the print quarterly — one email per issue, with the editor’s letter, the table of contents, links to each piece, and a download link for the issue archive. We may add an occasional between-issues note when something significant ships, but the default is four emails a year.

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Subject line: Stack Quarterly · Q1 2026 · The 2026 agentic stack survey, plus three more pieces.

Date: 2026-03-04.

Dear reader,
Welcome to the first issue of Stack Quarterly. We started this publication because the existing AI / agentic press is split between marketing-driven roundups that nobody believes and academic papers that nobody applies. We thought there was a slot for a quarterly that wrote for the engineer who has to make stack decisions and live with them.
Q1’s slate is twelve long-form pieces. The lead is the agentic stack survey — a qualitative landscape map of what working teams are actually shipping with, written without the faked percentages that have made every previous survey of this market embarrassing in retrospect. Reza’s MCP essay is the practitioner-side take on the protocol after a year of running it in production. Ginger’s piece on agentic stacks that don’t suck is the one we send to friends in marketing-engineering roles.
We are quarterly by design. The next issue lands the first week of July. Rolling pieces ship between then and now when they are ready.
Thanks for being here at the start.
— The Editor

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