Issue #10: GPT-5.5 Reclaims the Agentic Crown

Issue #16: Agentic Commerce Goes B2B — Amazon Shopping Agent, Perplexity 87% Time Savings, Ladybird Kills PRs

Issue #16 of The Agentic Engineer Podcast. Amazon licenses its agentic shopping assistant to outside retailers — Kate Spade first, 60-day deploy, $12B internal revenue drove the decision. Perplexity publishes production data showing autonomous agents cut knowledge work time 87% and expand scope of what users attempt. DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision. Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 land on AWS Bedrock. AWS MCP Server gets cross-account support. Bedrock Mantle Console redesigns the developer experience. And Ladybird kills public PRs because AI-generated contributions broke the effort-equals-good-faith assumption.

Issue #15: The Plugin Wars Begin — Anthropic Cowork Plugins, OpenSearch Next-Gen, Human-in-the-Loop

Issue #15 of The Agentic Engineer Podcast. Anthropic open-sources 11 knowledge-work plugins for Claude Cowork in the simplest format possible: markdown and JSON. OpenSearch Serverless Next-Gen kills the $300/mo minimum with true scale-to-zero vector search. Self-improving agents go from 25% to 86% accuracy in production. And the hot take: human-in-the-loop is a liability when users approve 93% of prompts without reading them.

Issue #14: Mythos 10K Vulns, CodeGraph, Constraint Decay, AI Slop Issues

Issue #14 of The Agentic Engineer Podcast. Anthropic's Mythos Preview found 10,000+ critical vulnerabilities in 30 days across 50 Glasswing partners. A new paper proves coding agents collapse in convention-heavy frameworks like Django. CodeGraph cuts agent costs 35% with pre-indexed knowledge graphs. And AI-generated slop issues are poisoning open source repos.

Issue #13: TanStack Attack, AWS Agent Orchestrator, FORGE Memory

Issue #13 of The Agentic Engineer Podcast. TanStack npm supply chain attack compromises OpenAI code-signing certs, AWS CLI Agent Orchestrator runs multiple coding agents in parallel via MCP, and FORGE evolves agent memory through population broadcast.

Issue #12: Agents That Spend Money

Issue #12: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments launches with Coinbase and Stripe, giving agents wallets and spending authority. The AWS MCP Server goes GA with 15,000 API operations in 3 tools. TraceFix formally verifies multi-agent coordination via TLA+, cutting deadlock from 31% to 14%. OpenAI Symphony open-sources work management for coding agents. Mythos finds a real curl CVE. Claude Platform on AWS goes GA. DeepSeek-TUI explodes to 24K stars. Anthropic ships vertical financial agents. And James Shore proves AI doubles your maintenance debt too. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai