In the News: August 13, 2026
Datadog deleted a year of AI context files and its evals improved, reframing agent context work as pruning as much as writing.
Datadog deleted a year of AI context files. Its evals got better.
Datadog scaled Cursor and Claude Code to its roughly 4,000-engineer org in under a year, moving from a 100-to-200-person pilot to more than a thousand daily users within a month of launch. Rather than write more rules, Boudrias's team…
Read story →Anthropic's long-horizon agents put the verifier in its own context window
Martin's talk lays out the architecture behind Anthropic's newer managed-agents surface for long-running work. The harness running the agent loop is decoupled from the containers executing its work and connected through an append-only…
Read story →Where code quality goes when nobody has time to read the diff
Osmani's argument is that code review does not scale to agent-generated volume, so quality has to move into the constraints placed around the agent: tests, mutation testing, complexity and line-length limits, and whatever else gates a…
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