







Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Part 3) | Spotify Engineering
This is part 3 in our series about Spotify's journey with background coding agents and the future of large-scale software maintenance. See also and .

1,500+ PRs Later: Spotify’s Journey with Our Background Coding Agent (Part 1) | Spotify Engineering
This is part 1 in our series about Spotify's journey with background coding agents and the future of large-scale software maintenance. See also and .

Cognition | Agent Trace: Capturing the Context Graph of Code
We’re excited to join in Cursor, Cloudflare, Vercel, git-ai, OpenCode and others in support of [Agent Trace](https://agent-trace.dev/). As described in the spec, Agent Trace is an open, vendor-neutral spec for recording AI contributions alongside human authorship in version-controlled codebases.


Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. See my introduction for more on this project.
Agent skill · Libraries.dev
Teach your coding agent Border beam, Thinking orbs, Gooey, Voice, Bot avatars, Liquid metal and Image.

Mistral Vibe | AI coding agent for terminal, IDE by Mistral.
Agentic coding that understands your entire codebase. Build, test, and modernize autonomously.

The Coding Agent Data Deal
On user data control, coding agents as retrievers, and the value of your coding transcripts

The Picture They Paint of You
Musings on the way we frame Coding Assistants, AI SREs, and what this communicates in terms of how these roles are perceived.
SlopTracker — Exposing AI-Generated Artists on Spotify
AI-generated artists are flooding Spotify, racking up millions of streams, and siphoning revenue from real musicians. See the receipts.
Learn | Frontend Hire
AI writes the UI now. These tracks build the career it can't: frontend depth, product thinking, AI-powered building, and finding the work that pays for it.

Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code

Managing Agent Skills with Your Package Manager | pavel.pink
AI coding agents use skills — markdown files that teach them domain-specific tasks. We publish ours as conda packages and manage them with pixi, getting versioning, lockfiles, and supply chain security for free.

Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns
I’ve started a new project to collect and document Agentic Engineering Patterns—coding practices and patterns to help get the best results out of this new era of coding agent development …

Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months

In Search of Vibe Coding Nirvana - Day 1 - Wesley's notes
Deliberate practice in exploring and experimenting with AI tooling