The Agentic Engineer Podcast

Nate Archer

Weekly AI agent intelligence for builders. The podcast companion to The Agentic Engineer newsletter by Nate Archer. Each week we break down the biggest stories in agentic AI — new frameworks, tools, infrastructure, and what it all means for developers building with agents.

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  1. 29 APR.

    Issue #10: GPT-5.5 Reclaims the Agentic Crown

    Issue #10: GPT-5.5 reclaims the agentic crown with 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and fewer tokens per task. Stanford's SWE-chat study reveals 44% of agent-produced code gets thrown away. ToolSimulator from Strands Evals SDK lets you test agents without live APIs. NVIDIA exposes AGENTS.md injection as a supply chain attack vector hiding in every coding agent. Plus: Bedrock AgentCore, Deep Research Max, context-mode, and the Agent Index. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    15 min

  2. 22 APR.

    Issue #9: Claude Opus 4.7 Ships Cyber Safeguards to Production

    Issue #9: Claude Opus 4.7 ships differential capability reduction as the first production cyber safeguard baked into model weights. Vercel breached through an AI tool's OAuth scope. Spring AI SDK for Bedrock AgentCore goes GA for Java. GTA-2 paper proves your agent harness matters more than your model. And CMU documents 6 million fake GitHub stars across the AI ecosystem. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    15 min

  3. 15 APR.

    Issue #8: Anthropic ships Managed Agents, UC Berkeley breaks every major AI benchmark, AWS Agent Registry launches in preview

    Issue #8: Anthropic ships Managed Agents, UC Berkeley breaks every major AI benchmark, AWS Agent Registry launches in preview. Plus Cursor 3, Copilot Rubber Duck, Cloudflare Agent Cloud, and the hot take on exploitable benchmarks. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    15 min

  4. 9 APR.

    Issue #7: Anthropic published the blueprint for multi-hour coding agents

    Anthropic published the blueprint for multi-hour coding agents. GitHub shipped /fleet for parallel multi-agent coding. Amazon Nova Act MCP gives your agent a browser with one install. Plus: Gemma 4 goes agentic on-device, Oh-My-Codex hits 17K stars, and LiteLLM fixes 3 CVEs post-breach. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    17 min

  5. 1 APR.

    Issue #6: JetBrains Central, ARC-AGI-3, Claude Mythos Leak, Copilot Ads in PRs

    This week: JetBrains Central launches an open control plane for coding agents. ARC-AGI-3 drops and frontier AI scores below 1%. Claude Mythos gets leaked via CMS misconfiguration. MolmoWeb beats GPT-4o at 8B parameters. AI Scientist v2 passes peer review. 177K MCP tools show agents shifted from reading to writing. AWS Labs ships Agent Plugins for Claude Code and Cursor. Microsoft merges Semantic Kernel and AutoGen. And Copilot literally put an ad in someone's pull request. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    16 min

  6. 24 MARS

    Issue #5: OpenCode 120K Stars, Claude Code Channels, Agent Memory Wars

    This week: OpenCode crosses 120K GitHub stars and 5M monthly devs. Claude Code ships Channels for event-driven coding agents. Hindsight hits #1 on LongMemEval for agent memory. Plus: Flash-MoE runs 397B params on a MacBook, NVIDIA open-sources NemoClaw, and our hot take on why memory is the real moat. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    15 min

  7. 18 MARS

    Issue #4: An Autonomous Agent Hacked McKinsey in 2 Hours

    This week: An autonomous agent hacked McKinsey's AI platform in 2 hours with no credentials and no human in the loop. Amazon mandates senior engineer sign-off on all AI-assisted code. Claude gets 1M context at standard pricing. METR proves SWE-bench scores are misleading. Agent Browser Protocol freezes JavaScript for deterministic agent browsing. George Hotz says stop running 69 agents. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    17 min

  8. 11 MARS

    Issue #3: LangChain Just Open-Sourced a Claude Code Replacement

    This week: LangChain releases Deep Agents, an MIT-licensed coding agent built on LangGraph that works with any model. GPT-5.4 ships native computer use (75% OSWorld score). Karpathy drops autoresearch for autonomous ML experiments. Claude finds 22 Firefox zero-days in two weeks. Anthropic's labor market study shows junior hiring slowing. Alibaba OpenSandbox provides agent isolation infrastructure. SWE-CI benchmark tests long-term code maintenance. Shannon AI pentester only reports verified exploits. And the Clinejection attack: how a GitHub issue title compromised 4,000 developer machines. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    18 min

  9. 4 MARS

    Issue #2: Claude Code Is Picking Your Stack, Anthropic's Wild Week, Mercury 2

    This week: Researchers analyzed 2,430 Claude Code responses and mapped the default developer stack. Anthropic gets designated a supply-chain risk AND drops its safety pledge in the same week. Mercury 2 hits 1,009 tokens/sec via diffusion. Steerling-8B explains every token it generates. CLIHub cuts MCP token costs by 94%. Plus the Agent Index and a hot take on the end of the "responsible AI" era. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    13 min

  10. 25 FEB.

    Issue #1: Mercury 2, Agentic IDEs & The Plumbing Era

    This week: Mercury 2's diffusion-based decoding hits 1,000+ tokens/sec. Emdash runs 21 coding agents in parallel. Cloudflare ships a full agent hosting SDK. Hugging Face standardizes agent skills. And why "agentic" just became an infrastructure category. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    5 min
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Weekly AI agent intelligence for builders. The podcast companion to The Agentic Engineer newsletter by Nate Archer. Each week we break down the biggest stories in agentic AI — new frameworks, tools, infrastructure, and what it all means for developers building with agents.

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