Show HN: MCP app for Android, drive apps via AI (no root, PII redacted locally)
Fresh Show HN launch.
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AI Usage Patterns Reveal New Developer Challenges and Opportunities
AI integration in software teams is altering workflows, but questions about code quality and rework remain.
Why it mattersAI systems are reshaping software development workflows, emphasizing the need for robust evaluation and governance models. Developers must navigate increased complexity in code quality assurance and integration to fully benefit from AI-generated enhancements.
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New AI Tools on the Block
Show HN: Marginal – See which customers and features drive your AI API costs
Fresh Show HN launch.
marginalhq
Show HN: Verify OpenAI's signed agent traffic in Python (RFC 9421/Web Bot Auth)
Fresh Show HN launch.
github
AI Agents: The Good, The Bad
My agent kept losing track of itself between sessions, so I rebuilt the harness instead of switching models
Spent most of this year assuming a better model would fix the reliability problems I was seeing. Wrong assumption. My agent would repeat a step it already finished, or start a task fresh with no memory of being halfway…
r/AI_Agents
Using multiple AI agents instead of one agent for everything
What makes AI agents more useful for software development is not trying to make one agent responsible for the entire project.Different tasks need different kinds of context, and using separate agents makes the workflow…
r/AI_Agents
Anyone else struggling with AI auditability?
An agent approved a discount override last month that was technically within policy but bigger than anyone expected. Legal's ask was simple, show the decision chain, what rule allowed it, what version of the policy was…
r/AI_Agents
Tools
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
github | stars 105,811
nexu-io/open-design
🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landin…
github | stars 89,250
Build
GraphRAG: How AI Answers Questions Hidden Across Many Documents
GraphRAG was designed to handle the second kind of questions, and we are going to learn more about it in this article.
blog.bytebytego
The alpha playbook: AI for investment professionals
The alpha playbook: AI for investment professionals
thoughtworks
Why An LLM’s Memory Gets Expensive and How to Fix It
In this article, we will learn how LLMs use memory, how it gets expensive, and how to fix it.
blog.bytebytego
Playbooks
Introducing LangSmith Tuned Evaluators
LangSmith Tuned Evaluators attach quality feedback to production traces, starting with Perceived Error, to help teams find and fix agent mistakes.
langchain
Harness design for long-running application development
Harness design is key to performance at the frontier of agentic coding. Here's how we pushed Claude further in frontend design and long-running autonomous software engineering.
anthropic
“It’s Hard to Eval” Is a Product Smell
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hamel
News
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact at scale with built-in spending guardrails, protocol-agnostic payment orchestration, and production-ready observa…
aws.amazon
Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application
Amazon Quick embedded chat brings a conversational AI interface into your web application. This post walks through customizing the embedded chat with container and SDK styling, branding removal, and a custom agent perso…
aws.amazon
Lerd: A Free, Open Source Herd Alternative for Linux and macOS
Lerd is a free, MIT-licensed local development environment for Linux and macOS: automatic .test domains, per-project PHP isolation, a built-in dashboard, and an MCP server for AI assistants. No Docker Desktop required.…
laravel-news