Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
martinfowler.com — Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production.
AI Agents
AI agents are software systems designed to plan, reason, and perform multi-step tasks autonomously across various digital environments. Truncated covers agent architectures, enterprise deployments, developer frameworks, and industry developments.
A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making
The Decoder — An AI agent performed brain surgery on an epileptic mouse, picking the drug, the brain target, and the injection coordinates on its own. According to lead researcher Ocana-Santero, it's the first time an AI agent has autonomously chosen a treatment and delivered it to a living mammal. But when a calibration error hit mid-surgery, the agent refused to continue and couldn't be talked out of it.
Zest's new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text
TechCrunch — Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.
Bug0 Releases QA Agent to Automate Regression Testing With Cached Playwright Replays
InfoQ — QA Agent is a new source-available Playwright library for agentic browser regression testing. The agent associates test instructions expressed in natural language to actions on the user interface, caches those when appropriate for faster CI replays, remapping them to test specifications when the user interface changes. Verification is based on multi-model consensus and vision model evaluations.
Autonomous agents need deployment experts to pay off
SiliconANGLE — Autonomous agents are hard to turn into returns, so monday.com Ltd. adds deployment experts, says co-CEO Eran Zinman in a theCUBE interview.
Agentic AI helps Prosper Global speed crisis research
SiliconANGLE — Agentic AI helps Prosper Global analysts start crisis research faster with VERA, a multi-agent engine built with Cloudera for aid work.
Shufti ties AI agent actions to verified owners and permissions
Help Net Security — Shufti launches Know Your Agent to verify AI agents, confirm user authorization and enforce permissions before transactions occur.
Here's What Real Data Quality Actually Requires
Forbes — An AI agent can act on whatever context it receives without the human sanity check that historically caught ambiguity before execution.
Scaling agentic AI with confidence
Articul8 launched Bivia, its own decision model that can be connected to AI agents and hold back when confidence is low.
Introducing Managed Agents
Cartesia — Today, we’re launching Cartesia Managed Agents, our end-to-end voice agent platform for enterprise conversations.
Unilever Cuts Order Processing to 90 Seconds With AI Agents
PYMNTS.com — About 2 million of Unilever’s roughly 20 million annual orders still arrive as emails, PDFs, spreadsheets and photos of paper forms, and each one used to
Experts adopt AI agent's random opinions and think they're their own, Anthropic study finds
The Decoder — Anthropic gave 50 experts an AI agent whose preferences were set by coin toss. The experts followed the agent's view up to 86 percent of the time on judgment calls, and most believed the conclusions were their own.
Fiverr Pivots to AI Agents as Traditional Search Erodes
PYMNTS.com — Fiverr is restructuring its digital architecture to adapt to what its CEO calls a fundamental upheaval in internet search. With search engine optimization
Start With One
jonathannen.com — Tell someone an agent merged to production with no human in the loop and the reply is "that's not possible." Nobody is proposing the general case, so ask whether one is possible instead: mine was a minor patch bump.
Claude Worktree Guide: Parallel Agents in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor
Octomind — Claude worktree setup for real projects: run Claude Code, Codex and Cursor agents in parallel git worktrees without colliding .env files, ports or databases.
Engineers are shipping faster, so we made our CI self-driving to keep up
posthog.com — PostHog ships code at a rapid pace, and that pace has only accelerated in recent months due to LLM adoption. We went from merging 1,354 PRs in October…
Claude Code is the best Linux tech support I've ever had
XDA — This would have taken me hours to figure out
/teardown by @jakubkrehel now available as a skill in Perplexity Computer.
Browser Use in Managed Deep Agents
langchain.com — Managed Deep Agents now runs a browser for your agent, with tools tuned for context-efficient browser use and a handoff so you can sign in yourself.
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