# agent stack (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover agent stack. Page: Feed: --- ## [Practical Loop Engineering](https://addyo.substack.com/p/practical-loop-engineering) _2026-08-14 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ Goals, loops, and the discipline of not delegating your judgment ## [Token maths is still not mathing; new model releases and escapes](https://datadeepdives.substack.com/p/token-maths-is-still-not-mathing) _2026-08-10 · Data Deep Dives · Deepnote's Substack_ Plus, an open policy problem ## [Agentic Code Quality](https://addyo.substack.com/p/agentic-code-quality) _2026-08-08 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ Quality now depends on the constraints you set around your agents. ## [Software Factories, Light and Dark](https://addyo.substack.com/p/software-factories-light-and-dark) _2026-07-22 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ A software factory is harnessing loops at scale. ## [Claude’s inner dialogue, price wars at the frontier, and a broken benchmark](https://datadeepdives.substack.com/p/claudes-inner-dialogue-price-wars) _2026-07-15 · Data Deep Dives · Deepnote's Substack_ It was a great fortnight in tech for everyone, apart from people facing lawsuits over corporate espionage and a developer in South Korea who received a $16.6 million invoice from Anthropic (that’s one way to hit revenue targets!). ## [Own the Outer Loop](https://addyo.substack.com/p/own-the-outer-loop) _2026-07-09 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ Why loop engineering needs a human at the boundary ## [Watermelon Sugar, Jalapeños, and Fable-ous return](https://datadeepdives.substack.com/p/watermelon-sugar-jalapenos-and-fable) _2026-07-03 · Data Deep Dives · Deepnote's Substack_ Sonnet 5 landed as the new default: Opus-level agentic vibes at a lower sticker price, yet somehow pricier per task in independent tests, slower than 4.6 under all the extra thinking, and roasted on Reddit and HN within hours as chattier, more adversarial, and a flat downgrade for a lot of people. ## [Agentic Autonomy Levels](https://addyo.substack.com/p/agentic-autonomy-levels) _2026-07-03 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ A working model of autonomy for agentic engineering ## [Anthropic's models get pulled offline, SpaceX becomes the backbone of frontier AI, and Satya Nadella says most companies are building on sand](https://datadeepdives.substack.com/p/anthropics-models-get-pulled-offline) _2026-06-18 · Data Deep Dives · Deepnote's Substack_ This issue lands at an unusual moment. ## [Agentic Code Review](https://addyo.substack.com/p/agentic-code-review) _2026-06-16 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ Why review is the most leveraged skill in software right now. ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZgEQSiJLbJHw) _2026-06-16 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Loop Engineering](https://addyo.substack.com/p/loop-engineering) _2026-06-08 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent. ## [I/O drops Gemini Omni + 3.5 Flash, Karpathy joins napkin-profitable Anthropic, & everyone gets an FDE thanks to Wall Street](https://datadeepdives.substack.com/p/io-drops-gemini-omni-35-flash-karpathy) _2026-05-26 · Data Deep Dives · Deepnote's Substack_ Hi! ## [Anthropic's $100M cyber defense coalition, GPT-5.5, and the agent stack converging](https://datadeepdives.substack.com/p/anthropics-100m-cyber-defense-coalition) _2026-05-12 · Data Deep Dives · Deepnote's Substack_ Anthropic revealed a model it’s keeping locked away precisely because it’s too dangerous to release commercially and built a $100M industry coalition around it instead. ## [OpenAI and Anthropic eye 2026 IPOs, Cursor's Composer 2 beats GPT-5.4 on cost, and SlopCodeBench delivers bad news](https://datadeepdives.substack.com/p/openai-and-anthropic-eye-2026-ipos) _2026-05-12 · Data Deep Dives · Deepnote's Substack_ What a leaky fortnight. ## [Meta delays Avocado frontier model to May, Cursor, Ramp, and Anthropic race to build agent infrastructure, and GPT-5.4 merges the model stack](https://datadeepdives.substack.com/p/meta-delays-avocado-frontier-model) _2026-05-12 · Data Deep Dives · Deepnote's Substack_ OpenAI collapsed its fragmented model lineup into GPT-5.4, the first model to combine reasoning, coding, and computer use while simultaneously shipping Codex-Spark at 1,000+ tokens per second on Cerebras hardware, a quiet signal that inference infrastructure is diversifying beyond NVIDIA. ## [Grok 4.2’s four-agent architecture, Anthropic’s Programmatic Tool Calling, and OpenAI’s $110B raise reshape the agent stack](https://datadeepdives.substack.com/p/grok-42s-four-agent-architecture) _2026-05-12 · Data Deep Dives · Deepnote's Substack_ This fortnight, two scenes captured another local maximum of AI hype: YC partners in crab suits, and Sam Altman counting calories to compare training humans vs training LLMs (the internet promptly fact-checked it and did not award extra credit). ## [Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3-Codex, Meta Avocado pre-training tops open models, MiniMax $0.30/hr](https://datadeepdives.substack.com/p/opus-46-vs-gpt-53-codex-meta-avocado) _2026-05-12 · Data Deep Dives · Deepnote's Substack_ Two frontier labs launched their best models simultaneously, and for many developers, something shifted. ## [Long-running Agents](https://addyo.substack.com/p/long-running-agents) _2026-04-30 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ A long-running AI agent can keep making progress over hours, days, or weeks. ## [The Agent Stack Bet](https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-agent-stack-bet) _2026-04-18 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ The bet every serious developer needs to make on on their agent stack ## [Is the IDE dead?](https://addyo.substack.com/p/death-of-the-ide) _2026-03-20 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ How Agent orchestration is replacing the editor as the center of developer work ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tFDDEXMFRwbw) _2026-03-20 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [14 More lessons from 14 years at Google](https://addyo.substack.com/p/14-more-lessons-from-14-years-at) _2026-02-12 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ This time about teams, trust, and the systems around the code. ## [The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding](https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-80-problem-in-agentic-coding) _2026-01-28 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ Managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code ## [How to write a good spec for AI agents](https://addyo.substack.com/p/how-to-write-a-good-spec-for-ai-agents) _2026-01-19 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ How to structure, plan, and iterate for high-performance coding agents ## [Code Review in the Age of AI](https://addyo.substack.com/p/code-review-in-the-age-of-ai) _2026-01-05 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ AI writes faster. Humans still have to prove it works. ## [How Good Is AI at Coding React (Really)?](https://addyo.substack.com/p/how-good-is-ai-at-coding-react-really) _2025-12-29 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ A data-driven look at what AI can and can’t do for React developers - and what you can do about it ## [My LLM coding workflow going into 2026](https://addyo.substack.com/p/my-llm-coding-workflow-going-into) _2025-12-18 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ Best practices for staying in control while coding with AI ## [21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google](https://addyo.substack.com/p/21-lessons-from-14-years-at-google) _2025-12-04 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ On code, careers, and the human side of engineering ## [Treat AI-Generated code as a draft](https://addyo.substack.com/p/treat-ai-generated-code-as-a-draft) _2025-11-25 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ Keep human eyes, judgment, and ownership at the center of AI written code ## [Critical Thinking during the age of AI](https://addyo.substack.com/p/critical-thinking-during-the-age) _2025-11-21 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ Who, what, where, when, why, how ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aYkgMKaC6unJ) _2025-11-21 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [Conductors to Orchestrators: The Future of Agentic Coding](https://addyo.substack.com/p/conductors-to-orchestrators-the-future) _2025-11-01 · Addy Osmani · Elevate_ From micro-manager to macro-manager: coding's asynchronous future