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When agents build, deploy, and maintain, persistence becomes the hard problem - The New Stack
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1332+ words) Every application has always needed a place to keep its state. That is not new. What is new is who creates that place, how many get created, and how long they have to survive after everyone has stopped looking. “Separating…...
The 3 roles AI agents play in your developer platform
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Microsoft just released Agent Lightning v1.0. Here’s why it matters for platform engineers.
2+ week, 3+ day ago (543+ words) Microsoft's Agent Lightning v1.0 lets the production harness own the agent loop in reinforcement learning, cutting train-serve mismatch on coding agents....
“Google was ahead only a few hours”: Muse Spark 1.3 edges out Gemini as Meta claims its biggest coding leap yet
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Per-developer environments were the goal. Agents moved the goalposts.
4+ week, 22+ hour ago (173+ words) AI coding agents break seat-based dev environments. Here is why the fundamental unit of multi-tenancy must shift from developers to changes....
The AI-native SDLC won't be one process
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (92+ words) Anthropic says code is no longer the bottleneck. It's right -- but the process that catches your agent's mistakes can't be one size for every change....
The systems guide to production token optimization
1+ week, 2+ day ago (542+ words) Scale AI systems efficiently by treating token optimization as a distributed systems and hardware utilization challenge....
AWS open-sources Pizza Bot: email-style inbox for background AI agents
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (280+ words) Two thousand people inside Amazon used early versions - before Pizza Bot was rebuilt as a standalone community project....
Stop the token bleed: building token-efficient multi-agent systems
3+ week, 2+ day ago (100+ words) Discover practical architectural strategies to eliminate AI token waste, reduce latency, and optimize multi-agent system costs....