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Beyond the Prompt: AI Agent Design Patterns and the New Governance Gap

If you are treating Large Language Models (LLMs) like simple question-and-answer machines, you are leaving their most transformative potential on the table. The industry has officially shifted from zero-shot prompting to structured AI agent design patterns and agentic workflows where AI iteratively reasons, uses external tools, and collaborates to solve complex engineering problems.

AI vs. Hype: Redefining Engineering Excellence with Ron Miller

In this episode of "ShipTalk: Engineering Excellence," host Thomas Dockstader sits down with Ron Miller, editor at Fast Forward, to discuss the real-world impact of AI on software development. They dive deep into the maturity of AI-driven code, the rise of the "citizen developer," and why traditional writing and communication skills are becoming the new must-have for modern engineers.

Building Agent-Friendly CLIs - What we learned at Checkly

Building Agent-Friendly CLIs: Why Your AI Agent Already Loves the Checkly CLI Stefan explains why products, docs, and CLIs must be AI-ready as coding agents rapidly become primary users of the Checkly CLI. He outlines key CLI features for agent workflows: Stefan demos how an agent initializes project-tailored Checkly setup from scratch without any human intervention and also shows how agents can entirely automate the incident life cylce from resolution to status page communication.

GitKraken Desktop 12.0 Release: Agent Sessions, Terminal Performance Boosts, and More!

If you're running Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini, managing multiple sessions means one terminal per agent, status checks by window-switching, and worktree setup from scratch every time. GitKraken Desktop 12.0 adds structure to that workflow. What's new: Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode.

AppSignal MCP Now Supports OAuth - and GitHub Copilot

When we launched AppSignal MCP in beta, OAuth was on the roadmap but not yet shipped. We were issuing static bearer tokens — enough to connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf, but not the one-click install path in the MCP Registry, and not GitHub Copilot's recommended setup. That's fixed.