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3 posts tagged “Agents”.
Agentic · 2026-05-01
AI pair programmer: how the term aged from 2022 to 2026
'AI pair programmer' was always a strained metaphor, since pair programming is a humans-only practice. The term carried real meaning in the Copilot era, less in the Cursor era, and almost none now that agents run for hours alone. A short essay on what 'pair' should mean today.
Comparison · 2026-05-01
Managed AI agents vs your-own-agent on a workstation
Two product shapes have emerged. Vendor-managed agents (Devin, Manus) where the platform owns the agent and the runtime, and bring-your-own-agent runtimes where the platform owns the runtime and you bring your CLI. A breakdown of cost, lock-in, and when each is right.
Deploy · 2026-05-01
Preview deployments for AI agents: live per-branch URLs
When an agent is the one shipping, humans review at the URL, not the diff. Three approaches to preview deployments (Vercel-style ephemeral, Cloudflare Workers, persistent-runtime) and where each one fits.