April Dagonese

"You" can just build things

Catch it at the first user, not the four-hundredth. A new user’s bank link fails, the agent says “try again later,” and nothing shows up in the logs. Watch a team find the bug and fix it before anyone else hits it, with Agent Learning Services and Agent Data Services, launching today.

@nvidia is co-hosting the Open Intelligence Summit. @JensenHuang's letter in June helped start the open intelligence movement. On October 13, we're bringing the movement to The Midway in San Francisco. Two NVIDIA speakers are on the agenda:

Marketing my cat like a new Apple product

It's time to move your AI agents to the cloud. Qencode built one for customer support triage. A request comes in, the agent wakes up, reads it, and files the ticket properly. @r_o_connor shows you how to build one just like it. Bring the harness, model, and tools you already use. We run them. DigitalOcean Managed Agents is now in public preview. do.co/4xN8zRM

Your agent calls a tool and gets back 20 JSON records, but it only needed one of them. Where do the other 19 go? Into the context window, of course, and you’ll re-send them on every remaining turn. Use code sandboxes instead, and you use 129,021 tokens instead of 268,438 for the same task. Available now as part of DigitalOcean’s Action Gateway. do.co/4AumqPt

Our Staff Developer Advocate @amit took DigitalOcean Managed Agents for a spin. He made up a coworking company called Atrium, then set it up the way a real team works: a backlog in @Linear, a handbook in @Notion, a channel in @SlackHQ, a repo on @github. Then he handed an agent one ticket and left it alone. It came back with a pull request, and a problem nobody had asked it to look for.

Exa is now officially available on DigitalOcean! Give your AI agents access to Exa web search through the DigitalOcean Action Gateway.

DigitalOcean Managed Agents is now in public preview. Run Claude Code, Codex, or your own LangGraph agent in a runtime environment that pauses when idle. Put its tools behind one governed endpoint, and pick from 75+ open and proprietary models. One cloud, one bill. Prompts to get started available in the blog: do.co/4ysh3it

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

your AI agents keep waiting for manual approvals clear the path from intent to execution with the MCP for the incentiv SDK coming to you soon