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Roelant Dieben demonstrates GitHub Spec Kit with GitHub Copilot: store non-negotiable rules in a constitution, capture intent in a specification, move technical choices into a plan, generate ordered tasks, then implement an HTTP MCP server. The demo relies on prepared branches for most stages and shows one MCP Inspector result; it offers no prompt-first baseline, test output, or comparative quality, time, or cost evidence.
Microsoft Developer · Source dated 24 Aug 2026
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Uber engineers Uday Kiran Medisetty and Adam Huda present the shared building blocks of a managed software factory: model and MCP gateways, pre-provisioned DevPods, a skills marketplace, a context graph, and the Cortana assistant. A staged walkthrough runs from product exploration through agent implementation, self-healing CI, and evidence-rich review. The adoption, token-saving, and quality figures are first-party reports without baselines or an independent security assessment; the speakers say the components are at different stages of rollout.
AI Engineer · Source dated 21 Aug 2026
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Mario Zechner demonstrates a control-heavy Claude Code workflow for established codebases: reviewed project docs, pre-compaction task summaries, jq-queried symbol indexes, persisted porting plans, compilation, and human checkpoints. His report that this cut a 68-file Spine runtime port from about two weeks to one day is an anecdote without logs or a baseline. The July 2025 Claude Code internals and pricing are historical, and his permission-bypass flag is not a security recommendation.
Mario Zechner · Source dated 1 Jul 2025
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Joe Ruscio interviews Simon Willison about adapting software practice when coding agents make implementation cheap. Willison proposes concentrating design in a stable data model and API beneath vibe-coded interfaces, scaling human review with the consequence of the code, and treating sustained real-world use as stronger trust evidence than generated tests or docs. His reliability, speed, cost, and market claims are practitioner reports, not controlled comparisons.
Heavybit · Source dated 5 May 2026
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Prism Labs explains Google Cloud’s v0.1 Open Knowledge Format proposal: concepts are Markdown files with minimal YAML metadata, ordinary links between them form a graph, and optional index and log files add navigation and history. Google supplies a BigQuery enrichment agent, a graph visualizer, sample bundles, and Knowledge Catalog ingestion as first-party proofs of concept. The recording shows no independent cross-vendor interchange or retrieval-quality evidence, and it misstates which fields are required.
Prism Labs · Source dated 14 Jun 2026
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Claude Code engineer Daisy Hollman explains a context-budgeted approach to agentic engineering beyond one repository: audit external work systems, treat context and prefix-cache costs as architecture constraints, and prefer lazy or event-driven context. She compares MCP tools, skills, subagents, and hooks, then shows her worktree, messaging, and scheduled-wake-up setup. The cache, cost, and throughput claims are presenter or vendor reports without comparative methods; several roadmap details are tentative.
NDC Conferences · Source dated 11 Aug 2026
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Qodo CEO Itamar Friedman proposes a gradual path from human-reviewed pull requests to automated approval: cite the team’s own rules in each review, watch where humans still intervene, then add approval policies step by step. A proposed context engine attaches rules, service contracts, and incident history to a software graph. This is a vendor proposal, not an evaluation: review accuracy and defect outcomes are unmeasured, and rollback is unspecified.
AI Engineer · Source dated 20 Aug 2026
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From Syntax: Practical Agent Workflows
Syntax · Source dated 12 Aug 2026