Kilo launched a new Architect agent in its Marketplace that uses the Grill-Me skill to interrogate users about ambiguous requirements before generating plans. The agent asks clarifying questions about…
Roo Code, an open-source coding agent with 3 million installs, shut down on May 15th as its team pivoted to a cloud agent called Roomote, stating that IDEs are not the future of coding. The same week,…
StepFun and MiniMax released new open-weight AI models over the weekend, with StepFun launching Step 3.7 Flash under a permissive Apache 2.0 license and MiniMax preparing to release the weights for it…
Most professional software engineers have not yet adopted advanced AI coding tools, according to conversations with hundreds of developers at the Open Source Summit North America in Minneapolis. Staff…
Seven senior software engineers at Kilo who build and use AI coding agents report that running 2-4 "foreground" agents in parallel is the productive sweet spot, contradicting claims of managing 50-100…
Kilo launched seven AI automations for marketers that use Cloud Agents with Webhook Triggers to perform tasks like competitor mention tracking and campaign asset generation, replacing manual work with…
XAI quietly released Grok Build 0.1, a new coding model optimized for autonomous software engineering workflows, during a week when the company also disclosed $6.4 billion in infrastructure spending. …