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A survey conducted by independent research firm Coleman Parkes on behalf of Undo, a company focused on scaling AI-powered root-cause analysis, found that while AI coding agents have accelerated code generation, they h... Context & related coverage →
LangChain just released new capabilities in Managed Deep Agents. Agents can now schedule follow-ups, reconfigure themselves on every run, and react to Slack messages. Context & related coverage →
On October 14, InfoQ hosts a free 60-minute panel with five practitioners on running AI in production. They'll discuss agent autonomy and human approval, how to verify AI-generated changes, sensitive-data exposure, an... Context & related coverage →
Deep Agents now lets you bind tools to skills, pin skills at runtime, and reload skills mid-thread, so agents with expansive skill repositories stay context-efficient and effective. Context & related coverage →
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went looking:... Context & related coverage →
Within three weeks of release, vLLM made DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash 1.9x faster at low concurrency and lifted its throughput 5x on SemiAnalysis AgentX, with SWA bounded replay, CUDA graphs, DeepSeek's new kernels, and vLLM k... Context & related coverage →
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch. Michael warns against "meandering intros", misjudging your reader's existing knowledge, assuming they'll read your previous posts, a... Context & related coverage →
The RPA-era ROI model misses most of the value agentic automation creates. This post gives AI center of excellence leaders a framework to size the full value of agents across time savings, exception handling, decision... Context & related coverage →
Kubernetes co-creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda aim to bring agent harnesses fully into the cloud. Context & related coverage →