Hey readers! 👋 This week’s issue is bursting with groundbreaking developments from OpenAI’s Code release and Google I/O’s AI showcase, where we’re seeing a fascinating shift toward AI agents that can parallelize tasks and even improve their own code — developers reporting up to 10x productivity boosts isn’t just hype, it’s the new reality.
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Trae Agent 2.0 — Trae’s latest update intelligently anticipates your needs and automatically invokes the right tools without constant user input. @Trae_ai
Coding Guidelines for Your AI Agents — JetBrains is creating a living catalog of AI-friendly coding guidelines to ensure AI-generated code adheres to best practices. The IntelliJ IDEA Blog
Top AI Podcasts for AI Engineers — A curated list of podcasts covering everything from technical insights to industry trends for AI practitioners. Arize AI
Sakana AI’s Darwin Gödel Machine — A novel AI system that enhances its capabilities by rewriting its own code, showing significant performance improvements on coding benchmarks. Sakana AI
AugmentQA benchmark for code retrieval — Using ground-truth keyword recall to evaluate code retrieval systems with real-world queries from engineers. @augmentcode
Surprisingly Fast AI-Generated Kernels — Unexpected performance improvements achieved through AI-generated kernels that weren’t meant for immediate publication. Hacker News
Claude Code: An analysis — An in-depth look at Claude Code’s architecture, safety systems, and prompt engineering techniques. Notion
9 Best AI Coding Tools for Beginners — A guide to AI assistants that make coding more accessible for newcomers to programming. Artificial Intelligence Tools Review