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Learn: Coding agents

Vol. I No. 26 Saturday, October 17, 2026 Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

Working with AI that reads and writes code.

5 steps to the basics

Start here

  1. Claude Code overviewAnthropic · An agent that works in your terminal and your code.
  2. Best practices for Claude CodeAnthropic · Plans, tests and small steps: how to work with one.
  3. GitHub Copilot documentationGitHub · Suggestions in the editor, and an agent on your pull requests.
  4. AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md · One file that tells any coding agent how your project works.
  5. SWE-benchSWE-bench · How well agents fix real bugs, measured on real projects.

New for beginners

  1. The GitHub BlogOct 12, 2026
    GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase
  2. Real PythonOct 7, 2026
    The Best IDEs and Code Editors for Python (Guide)
  3. The GitHub BlogSep 25, 2026
    GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases

Go deeper

  1. AWS Machine LearningOct 16, 2026
    Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWS
  2. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 15, 2026
    Scale Agentic Coding Workflows with Meta’s Muse Spark Open on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
  3. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 15, 2026
    Agents in Production, Part 2: Build an AI-Native Coding Agent That Turns Tickets into Reviewed Pull Requests with Managed Agents
  4. Tigera (Calico)Oct 13, 2026
    From Merged PR to Governed Pod: Automating AI Agent Deployment on Kubernetes
  5. CNCFOct 12, 2026
    From zero to agent builder: Running kagent on your laptop
  6. Trendyol TechOct 12, 2026
    Building Traffic AI — Part 1: From Q&A Automation to an Operational AI Copilot
  7. LanceDBOct 10, 2026
    Case Study: How CodeRabbit Leverages LanceDB for AI-Powered Code Reviews
  8. PingCAP (TiDB)Oct 8, 2026
    Persistent AI Agent Memory Explained: How Agents Remember Across Sessions
  9. OpenAIOct 8, 2026
    How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex
  10. PostmanOct 8, 2026
    Agentic SDLC with the Claude Code Plugin
  11. OpenAIOct 8, 2026
    LegalOn halves Codex costs while maintaining development speed
  12. FirebaseOct 8, 2026
    Building an iOS app in 6 hours with Firebase and Antigravity
  13. TemporalOct 8, 2026
    The immortal life of Pi (Running the Pi coding agent on Temporal)
  14. EarthlyOct 7, 2026
    AI Code Reviewers vs. Guardrail Engines: Where each fits
  15. AWS Machine LearningOct 5, 2026
    Supercharge regulated workloads with Claude Code and Amazon Bedrock
  16. SentryOct 2, 2026
    Seer, the Sentry MCP and CLI, or your own coding agent: where each one fits
  17. OpenAIOct 2, 2026
    Chatham scales its capital markets expertise with OpenAI
  18. Tigera (Calico)Sep 30, 2026
    Managing Claude Code Sessions Through Lynx
  19. Microsoft 365 DeveloperSep 30, 2026
    Bring your plugin to Microsoft Copilot with Work IQ Developer Tools
  20. PydanticSep 30, 2026
    Debugging production from your editor with the Logfire MCP server
  21. AWS DevOpsSep 29, 2026
    Building a Slack-powered AI development agent with Kiro CLI and headless authentication
  22. AWS DevOpsSep 29, 2026
    Accelerating development workflows with Kiro CLI as a Pre-Commit and Git Hook Agent
  23. Auth0Sep 29, 2026
    Integrating Claude Code with Auth0 APIs
  24. ThoughtworksSep 29, 2026
    Engineering the harness: A practical pattern for reliable coding agents
  25. AWS Machine LearningSep 23, 2026
    Use open weight models as your AI coding agent with Amazon Bedrock
  26. WarpSep 18, 2026
    Using LLM-as-a-judge scoring to measure your software factory
  27. Trendyol TechSep 11, 2026
    Coding agents rediscover your codebase on every single run.
  28. NxSep 10, 2026
    Why the AWS PACE Team Built Its Full-Stack Scaffolding as an Nx Plugin

Advanced

  1. LangChainOct 13, 2026
    Improving Deep Agents with harness engineering
  2. Real PythonOct 9, 2026
    The Real Python Podcast – Episode #314: Codemoo: Demonstrating How Coding Agents Work
  3. ExpoOct 8, 2026
    Your skills need an evaluation mechanism
  4. DatabricksSep 30, 2026
    How to scale agentic applications without creating AI sprawl
  5. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 29, 2026
    AI Native by Design: Lessons Learned from Building NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect
  6. The GitHub BlogSep 23, 2026
    Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
  7. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 23, 2026
    How SWE-Serve Exposes the Gap Between Local Tests and Live Serving
  8. VS CodeSep 23, 2026
    Building the new GitHub Copilot Inline Suggestions Model: Part Two
  9. ModalSep 23, 2026
    How to serve trillions of tokens for trillion-parameter coding agents
  10. SentrySep 21, 2026
    Building Sentry's Laravel AI Integration
  11. Airbnb TechSep 15, 2026
    Beyond the model: Engineering AI infra with scientific judgement
  12. Doctolib TechSep 15, 2026
    From middleman to copilot: Doctolib’s data mesh shift, seen from ingestion

Words to know

New research

  1. Improving Environment-Agnostic Coding Agents: The Role of Scaffolding

More in Software engineering →

Rising on GitHub

  1. cathrynlavery/diagram-designEditorial diagram design for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Factory Droid, and Pi. 44 diagram types. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows. No Mermaid slop.
  2. mksglu/context-modeContext window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output (98% reduction), persists session memory, and enforces routing across 17 platforms via MCP + hooks.
  3. anthropics/claude-plugins-officialOfficial, Anthropic-managed directory of high quality Claude Code Plugins.

Everything rising this week →