DevToolsDigest: Issue #392
This week's digest includes news & resources from AWS, Harness, and more.
Subscribe to the DevToolsDigest
All you need is 3 minutes a week to stay ahead of the devtools space. Get the most relevant industry updates, insightful discussions, and top-notch resources delivered straight to your inbox.
The Week in DevTools
jevgrep
Agents spend part of every unfamiliar task finding the right files. Jevgrep gives them a place to start: ask a question, and jg returns relevant files, reading leads, and verbatim source excerpts in one stdout response.
Introducing Strands Box: AI Agent Sandboxes
Coding assistants, home-grown harnesses, and off-the-shelf agents increasingly run in “YOLO mode,” approving every action without human review. The usual solution to this problem is a sandbox.
Industry Research
The Order is The Strategy
The firms that get burned by AI almost never picked the wrong model. They skipped the sequence. That’s the whole post-mortem, nine times out of ten. A purchase is one decision. A build order is a discipline.
The Impact of AI on Software Engineering
Originally a talk given to CS teachers, this whirlwind tour of AI engineering, rise of agentic coding, the evolution of SWE into product engineering, and the era of personal software is helpful for all.
Are You Setting Your Team Up for Failure or Success?
Eng teams rarely fail because of technology alone. For eng leaders, setting a team up for success means creating the conditions for people to think, collaborate, challenge assumptions, and solve the right problems together.
Developer Venture News
Harness Buys Select Assets of Augment Code
The deal includes Augment’s Cosmos, Auggie CLI, the code context engine, and related technology. The teams behind these products will join Harness, accelerating its work to make the entire SDLC increasingly autonomous.