Depends on the job. Quick checks, curl still wins. Real suites, an agentic tool that writes and maintains the cases.
AUTOMATION
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Directing AI Agents: The Future Skill Beyond Prompting
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One catch though. The bright future goes to people who can direct an agent and check its work. Direction on its own just builds a faster mess.
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AI Agents Beyond LLMs: Orchestration and Architecture
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AI agents are more than LLMs • Skills → expertise
• MCP → external connections
• Subagents → delegated tasks
• Hooks → automation
• Memory → persistent context Real AI systems are orchestration layers. Via Giuliano Liguori (
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Automating work and life admin with Codex scripts
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have had tons of of fun automating boring parts of my job and life admin the past few days with codex and one off scripts oh and no you really don’t need a Mac mini to for this 🙂
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Claude: The Emerging Universal Interface for Digital Tools
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Claude is slowly becoming the interface for everything: – Presentations: PowerPoint → Claude in PowerPoint
– Editing: Premiere Pro → Remotion
– Browser: Chrome → Claude for Chrome
– Spreadsheets: Excel → Claude in Excel
– Image / Video: Midjourney → Higgsfield
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Claude: The Emerging Universal Interface for All Your Tools
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Claude is slowly becoming the interface for everything: – Presentations: PowerPoint → Claude in PowerPoint
– Editing: Premiere Pro → Remotion
– Browser: Chrome → Claude for Chrome
– Spreadsheets: Excel → Claude in Excel
– Image / Video: Midjourney → Higgsfield
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AI system outperforms human-written code in scientific software design
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#AI system automates scientific software design, outperforming human-written code in key benchmarks
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Red/green TDD for agents with regression tests
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I am firmly in the red/green TDD team for agent code, I like having a test suite that protects against breaking old features when they make new changes – https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/red-green-tdd/ …
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Automated Tests for Coding Agent Code
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Do you include automated tests for the code that your coding agents write?
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Gary Marcus doubts 50% white collar job loss in two years
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not saying that nobody will lose their job (and in many cases AI is just a fig leaf). but i doubt eg we will lose 50% white collar jobs in two years.