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Agentic coding is going operational: evals, guardrails, and runbooks
Agentic coding is shifting from hype to operations, with new evaluation tooling and sharper focus on reliability and security. Agent platforms are ev...
Anthropic’s three-agent harness keeps long-running coding agents on track
Anthropic details a three-agent harness that keeps Claude coherent on multi-hour autonomous coding tasks by decomposing work and grading outputs. Ant...
Karpathy’s agentic workflow: from coding to manifesting intent
Andrej Karpathy says his workflow flipped to delegating most coding to AI agents since December 2024. In a wide-ranging recap, Karpathy describes a s...
Terminal agents and AI PR review reshape workflows
Terminal coding agents and smarter AI PR reviewers are changing how teams write and review backend code. Hwee-Boon Yar argues for terminal-first codi...
GPT-5.4 rolls out amid open‑source perks and early API snags
OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 is arriving alongside an open-source maintainer program, but developers are hitting some API rough edges.
Claude’s 1M‑token context goes GA: time to re-think RAG-heavy pipelines
Anthropic made a 1,000,000-token context window generally available across all Claude tiers, pushing long‑context work into day‑to‑day production. Co...
Structured prompts and guidelines boost LLM code generation
Coverage suggests that applying explicit coding guidelines in prompts materially improves LLM code generation quality and consistency ([Quantum Zeitge...
Throughput now depends on coordination, not model IQ
This piece argues the bottleneck has shifted from model capability to team cognitive architecture, urging leads to adopt a "fleet commander" mindset t...
ABC-Bench puts agentic backend coding to an end-to-end test
ABC-Bench is a new benchmark that evaluates LLM agents on real backend workflows: repo exploration, environment setup, containerization, service launc...
Video walkthrough: end-to-end AI coding workflow from task to shipped code
A new video demonstrates a complete AI-assisted coding workflow that takes a simple task through to shipped code. It shows an end-to-end process you c...