DevToolsDigest: Issue #362
This week's digest includes news and resources from MIT, PulseMCP, and more.
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The Week in DevTools
Linux Foundation Announces the Agentic AI Foundation
The AAIF provides a neutral, open foundation to ensure this critical capability evolves transparently, collaboratively, and in ways that advance the adoption of leading open source AI projects.
A Smarter Way for LLMs to Think About Hard Problems
To get accurate results, you can let LLMs spend more time thinking about potential solutions when answering harder questions. But common approaches set a fixed computational budget for every problem, regardless of how complex it is.
Industry Research
Measuring Agents in Production
AI agents are already operating in production across many industries, yet there is limited public understanding of the technical strategies that make deployments successful. This is the first large-scale systematic study of AI agents in production.
Baking Domain-Specific Intelligence into An MCP Server
Research shows that LLMs still demonstrate significant gaps in temporal reasoning compared to humans. The problem compounds when you add multiple attendees, multiple events, competing priorities, and individual preferences to the mix.
Developer Venture News
IBM to Acquire Confluent
Data is at the heart of what companies need to do to harness AI, modernize their operations, and build the next generation of applications. IBM and Confluent aim to provide a platform on which enterprises run on continuous, event-driven intelligence.
Snowflake-Anthropic Partnering Could Be A Game Changer
Through a multiyear, $200-million expansion of their agentic AI partnership, the companies plan to deliver an operational “control plane” that uses Anthropic’s latest Claude models to power enterprise intelligence.