Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed tool that enables AI agents to ground responses in current, cited web knowledge withou…
A veteran developer with 25 years of experience reports that AI agents now write most of their code, shifting their role from typing to judging. The developer runs a consensus environment where Claude…
Agent skills—folders of markdown files that instruct AI coding agents—have become one of the most-starred new categories of developer tooling, with repos like Superpowers and a community-built skill b…
At AWS Summit Los Angeles 2026, a developer building with Kiro learned the importance of spec-driven development during a lab led by AWS Senior Technical Instructor Clayton Markos. The developer reali…
GitHub now allows pull requests created by github-actions[bot] to trigger CI/CD workflows, but only after a maintainer with write access explicitly approves the PR. The change, effective June 11, fixe…
A developer at a large tech company argues that the specification for AI coding agents is written too late in the development process, leading to misalignment between team intent and agent output. The…
A new AI coding agent skill plugin called PUA uses corporate rhetoric from tech giants to force AI models like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex CLI to exhaust all solutions before giving up, claiming to d…
A developer used Kiro, an AI partner, to optimize MS SQL Server query performance on a .NET Core application, reducing investigation time from days to hours. Kiro analyzed raw queries and codebase con…
A developer built EGC (Extended Global Context), an open-source tool that gives AI coding assistants persistent memory across sessions and tools. The tool installs two MCP servers into 13 supported AI…
Plannotator, an open-source tool for annotating agent plans, diffs, and HTML, now supports nine AI agent harnesses including Claude Code and Codex. The tool, which began as a way to review Claude Code…
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, featuring a redesigned architecture that delivers 20 times faster resource provisioning, …
Amazon launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, a service that provides isolated Linux microVMs with persistent workspaces and real shells for hosting coding agents, addressing the security and reso…
Amazon removed an internal AI leaderboard for its Kiro employees after staff used excessive computing tokens to compete for top rankings. The leaderboard, designed to track AI model performance, led t…
OpenHive, a shared knowledge base that lets AI agents store and retrieve problem-solution pairs, launched to prevent agents from repeatedly solving the same issues across sessions. The system uses sem…
Amazon is shutting down its internal "Kirorank" AI leaderboard after employees inflated their scores by assigning AI agents to meaningless tasks, driving up cloud costs. Senior Vice President Dave Tre…
SharkBay, a new macOS workbench for managing multiple AI coding agents, launched as an open-source tool that lets developers run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and other agents from a single workspace. T…
Amazon removed an internal AI usage leaderboard called "KiroRank" after employees allegedly engaged in "tokenmaxxing," running unnecessary AI calls to inflate their usage scores. Senior vice-president…
Amazon Web Services announced the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector engine for AI agent applications that scales from zero to thousands of requests per…
Spec-driven development is not a return to waterfall-style software development, according to its proponents. The methodology treats specifications as living, versioned artifacts that are iterated upo…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced an open-source framework called Strands Agents that enables developers to build intelligent AI research assistants using just 30 lines of code. The framework, …