#agents

#agents

Among the releases was the beta version of AI SDK 6, which adds an agent abstraction layer for defining and reusing AI agents in projects. This layer allows developers to specify agent behaviors once and apply them across different parts of an application. The SDK also incorporates tool execution approval, integrating human-in-the-loop processes to review and confirm AI actions before they proceed. Type safety extends across supported AI models and user interfaces, ensuring data consistency and reducing runtime errors through compile-time checks.

They looked at 90 AI coding assistants and identified 10 design dimensions. The paper describes how we went from autocomplete to chat to agents, and why industry is converging on speed and polish while academia explores novel interaction designs. Then it maps the design dimensions to 6 personas of users with the key trade-offs for each.

The images begin with a set of "agents" that draw paths, moving around the canvas and leaving a trail behind, ultimately forming closed shapes.