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• Loop Engineering: Triggers, Cron Jobs, and AI Slop

  The Pragmatic Engineer investigated the loop engineering buzzword spreading through AI coding. Here's what they found inside the loops.

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  Jul 14 · 2 min

• Kent Beck: Trust, Not Code Generation, Will Define Engineering in the AI Era

  Kent Beck reflects on Agile, TDD, and why the future of software engineering depends on building trust — not just generating code faster with AI.

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  Jul 1 · 2 min

• Symphony: OpenAI's open-source spec for turning issue trackers into Codex agent systems

  OpenAI released Symphony, an open-source orchestration spec that connects issue trackers to always-on Codex coding agents, reducing context switching for engineering teams.

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  May 1 · 3 min

• OpenAI Responses API: How WebSockets and connection caching cut latency in agentic workflows

  OpenAI details how WebSockets and connection-scoped caching reduced overhead in the Codex agent loop via the Responses API, with practical implications for AI agent developers.

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  May 1 · 4 min