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Loop Engineering, Not Prompts: How to Make Coding Agents Ship Safely
AI coding agents are moving from prompt hacks to loop engineering with verifiable checks, tighter scopes, and single‑agent workflows that actually shi...
Gartner flags AI coding token spend as payroll-sized risk
Gartner says AI coding token spend could match a developer’s salary within two years, and most teams don’t have the guardrails to stop it. [InfoWorld...
BYOK goes first-class: VS Code offline + Copilot multi-provider and request hooks
Microsoft and GitHub quietly made BYOK and offline LLMs first-class across VS Code, Copilot, and the Copilot SDK. VS Code 1.122’s new air‑gapped mode...
OPAQUE 3.0 brings auditable governance to MCP agents
OPAQUE 3.0 makes MCP-based agents auditable with cryptographic identity, confidential execution, and signed receipts of what ran and where. The new [...
Anthropic launches Claude Tag: a shared Slack teammate for engineering work
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a Slack-based team agent with shared memory and autonomous follow-ups. [InfoWorld](https://www.infoworld.com/article/4...
DIY Python pipelines that turn web noise into business signals
Two Python how‑tos show end‑to‑end patterns for turning unstructured web content into daily, actionable signals. One guide builds an “intelligence la...
MCP is becoming the agent integration layer for real ops
DevOps teams are standardizing on MCP to turn agents from chatbots into operators, and the winners design escalation paths instead of chasing full aut...
Codex v0.142.0 brings real agent governance: budgets, delegation gates, and allowlisted live search
OpenAI Codex added practical guardrails for coding agents and hardened its MCP/exec stack in v0.142.0. The latest [Codex release](https://github.com/...
Cursor buys Continue, the open‑source Copilot alternative
Cursor acquired Continue, an open-source Copilot alternative, raising questions about its roadmap and integration with Cursor. The New Stack reports ...
OpenRouter’s usage leaderboard reshuffles coding LLM choices
OpenRouter’s updated coding-model usage rankings put cheaper long‑context newcomers near the top, which could change how you pick and pay for code ass...
RAG reliability is a context engineering problem, not a prompt problem
RAG reliability hinges on how you structure and retrieve context, not on prompt tweaks or chunk-size folklore. A teardown of failing production pipel...
Stop shipping more agents. Build the control plane.
Agent demos are over; production value now depends on ownership, scopes, and an agent control plane. [Google DeepMind is funding research into multi-...
The “free Cursor” workaround wave is landing in VS Code
Community guides are spreading ways to run Cursor-like coding agents for free in VS Code using third-party scripts and services. A new [Stack Overflo...
RAG Reality Check: HNSW Everywhere, Filters Decide; Read Fewer Images
Most vector stores use HNSW, so your filtering and scale decide whether pgvector is enough or you need Qdrant, Pinecone, or Weaviate. A hands-on comp...
Route-first LLM infra: 9Router’s token saver and OpenRouter’s fallback playbook
LLM app reliability and cost control are moving into routing layers that juggle providers, compress tokens, and keep requests flowing. [9Router](http...
Poolside’s Laguna M.1: Apache-2.0 MoE for agentic coding with a 262k context
Poolside released Laguna M.1, an Apache-2.0 MoE coding model with a 262k context window and built-in interleaved thinking. Laguna M.1 is a 225B-param...
Cursor rolls out cloud agents that run repo tasks off your machine
Cursor is rolling out cloud-hosted agents that run repo-wide tasks from the IDE, edging toward GitHub-style workflows. Community posts point to a Jun...
Agent plugins grow up: security metadata and prompt transparency for Claude Code and friends
Antigravity Awesome Skills shipped security-aware, specialized plugin bundles while Piebald expanded transparent diffs of Claude Code’s system prompts...
Perplexity Brain puts agent work-memory in production, and research backs the approach
Perplexity launched Brain, an agent-centric memory that helps its Computer agent learn from past work to boost accuracy and cut cost. [Perplexity is ...
Open-weight coding models hit a new tier: Kimi K2.7 Code and GLM‑5.2
Two new open‑weight coding models—Kimi K2.7 Code and Zhipu AI’s GLM‑5.2—are emerging as viable local alternatives to hosted code assistants. Reviewer...
Anthropic shows Claude Opus 4.7 autonomously solving a robotics integration ~20x faster than last year’s human team
Anthropic’s latest Project Fetch run shows Claude Opus 4.7 autonomously completing a robodog integration about 20x faster than last year’s top human t...
ARD lands: a common layer for agent tool discovery across enterprise silos
Google, Microsoft, and others introduced ARD, a spec that lets AI agents discover enterprise tools via catalogs and registries. [InfoWorld’s report](...
Claude Code adds live Artifacts; GitHub Action v1.0 cleans up CI
Anthropic added live, shareable Artifacts to Claude Code and shipped a cleaner v1.0 GitHub Action for CI. Artifacts turn a Claude Code session into a...