Coders Coded Their Job Away. Why Are So Many of Them Happy About It?

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code

Anthropic, a smaller rival started by OpenAI defectors, has found runaway success with its programming agent, Claude Code.
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Claude Opus 4.6 Introduces Adaptive Reasoning and Context Compaction for Long-Running Agents

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 introduces "Adaptive Thinking" and a "Compaction API" to solve context rot in long-running agents. The model supports a 1M token context window with 76% multi-needle ...
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AWS Launches Strands Labs for Experimental AI Agent Projects

Amazon Web Services has introduced Strands Labs, a new GitHub organization created to host experimental projects related to agent-based AI development.