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Chat is great for intent, but agent work gets lost in the scroll. Here is how I use canvases with my agentic workflows—and why your workflow also deserves a canvas. The post How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Abstract Agent-driven end-to-end (E2E) tests add a new exploratory layer to testing, but should they replace traditional deterministic tests? We ran more than 200 agentic E2E workflows using the Playwright MCP, Playwright CLI, and agent-generated Playwright tests in test workspaces using non-production data to find out how agentic testing could fit into both our and…
How Dropbox is moving from AI tools that assist engineers to agentic systems that can execute scoped tasks, and how we’re building platforms to support those workflows.
Every iOS pull request at Thumbtack used to wait 30 to 40 minutes for Continuous Integration (CI) — sometimes over an hour on Fridays. We built Smart Test Selection (STS) to cut that in half. Here’s how.I’m a Senior Software Engineer on the iOS Infrastructure team. We own the CI/CD pipelines, build tooling, and shared frameworks that keep Thumbtack’s apps shipping reliably. We also build AI-powered developer tooling — 35+ AI Agent Skills, MCP integrations for Jenkins, Figma, Firebase, and Xcode — that help the broader iOS team ship faster.Over the past few quarters, we built Smart Test…
What agriculture and car manufacturing can teach us about the use of generative AI in software engineeringIt’s not often that an article about AI coding tools takes us back a few centuries. Come with me on a trip down memory lane to revisit a couple of lessons other industries learned long ago.In the 1840s, the German chemist Justus von Liebig popularized an idea about plant growth, first articulated by agronomist Carl Sprengel in 1828. Plants need many things to grow: water, sunlight, nutrients, good soil. But their growth is not determined by the sum of those inputs. It is constrained by…