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Amazon
“As I see more and more data, it is becoming clear the first productivity gains that will be widely realized from AI is in programming. Look at this from Amazon: 4,500 developer years saved on a project!
“One of the most tedious (but critical tasks) for software development teams is updating foundational software. It’s not new feature work, and it doesn’t feel like you’re moving the experience forward. As a result, this work is either dreaded or put off for more exciting work—or
LangChain
“🎉 Based in Austin and want to meet other LangChain enthusiasts? 🤓 Join the community-run @AustinLangChain User Group this Wednesday, August 21st at 6 PM for their Hacky Hour. This casual gathering is the perfect opportunity for AI and LangChain enthusiasts to come together,
“📚 LangChain JS Routing with LLM Classifiers Check out this hands-on tutorial on using LangChain JS to dynamically select prompts based on the query type. 🥕carrots, 🍝lasagna, or general questions—all handled seamlessly with LLM classifiers!
OpenAI
“Code interpreter and plot rendering are slowly being rolled out!” / X
Other Agent News
“LM agents are consequential for cybersecurity, both for offense (cyberrisk) and defense (penetration testing). To measure these capabilities, we are excited to release Cybench, a new cybersecurity benchmark consisting of 40 professional Capture the Flag (CTF) tasks:
“Cosine demo’d Genie, a fully autonomous AI swe that broke the high score for SWE-Bench at 30.08% When it makes a mistake, it iterates, re-plans, and re-executes until it fixes the problem
“I’m excited to share that we’ve built the world’s most capable AI software engineer, achieving 30.08% on SWE-Bench – ahead of Amazon and Cognition. This model is so much more than a benchmark score: it was trained from the start to think and behave like a human SWE.
“Meet Spellbook Associate: The first AI Agent for law Two years ago we launched the first GenAI copilot for lawyers. We had no idea it would now be used by 2,500+ legal teams! Today we’re launching the first full-fledged agent that can break down legal projects into plans,
“Friday feature drop: We’ve added a new screenshot button that allows you to quickly capture images from anywhere on your screen and include them in your prompt.
“If each step of an ai agent is 95% accurate. None of the 30 step work flows will work. Going from 95-> 99.9 is a similar last mile problem as with self driving cars. Easy to hack up a prototype. Hard to make it work reliably at scale.” / X
“Just had a *mind blown* moment with Lindy AI I accidentally enabled the AI agent I built on Friday that validates inbound leads, sends hyper-personalized emails, and negotiates on my behalf… … and it WORKED For context, I’m new to the platform and was tinkering with it
“Excited to share our progress 🔥 Introducing @codegen: the IDE for Refactors. @codegen allows you to programmatically analyze and manipulate your codebase. ✅ Safely transform code at scale 🔍 Visualize complex code structures ⚡ Purpose-built for AI-assisted development 1/
“A few days ago someone asked me what the point of using AI is if you’re not a programmer. To answer that, I kept track of every time I talked to Claude in one day to show them what I use it for:” / X
“Agentic RAG with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, @MongoDB, and @llama_index 🤖 This tutorial by @richmondalake is a fantastic beginner’s walkthrough on building an agentic knowledge assistant over a pre-existing RAG pipeline. Take advantage of tool selection, task decomposition, and
“Sakana AI introduced “The AI Scientist” According to the startup, it’s the world’s first AI system capable of autonomously conducting scientific research It generates new ideas, writes code, runs experiments, writes papers, and does its own peer review
Salesforce Announces Autonomous Sales Agents
“🆕 fully autonomous sales agents, Einstein SDR Agent & Einstein Sales Coach Agent are coming soon to #DF24. See how @Accenture plans to use agents on the Agentforce Platform to improve effectiveness, support more deals, and focus on complex deals:
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