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Top pain points for AI data readiness include finding the right data for a project and cleaning up low quality and duplicate data, followed by metadata extraction and enrichment.

The agentic life cycle (ADLC) mirrors the stages of a conventional software life cycle (SDLC). The key change is which actor executes each stage.

Kong Context Management ensures agents can access more of the enterprise context it needs without swamping the model with everything it could use.

BrowserStack Load Testing runs real browsers and API traffic in a single test so teams can see how their web apps hold up ahead of holiday sales.

The practical goal is a workflow in which a person can understand what happened, exercise authority, and recover with a reasonable amount of effort.

People who are not professional developers can build real automation. The barrier to building fell through the floor. The barrier to understanding did not.

Lane Kingsbery had a thought. If agents are going to go out and do what they think is right, why not put them to use for the public good?

This week's roundup includes news from OpenAI with new speed capabilities, Functionalize's MCP and Java SE pricing.

Most IT leaders have heard the same pitch: Put AI agents on the front line, let them close the routine tickets, and watch the headcount line shrink.

Harness has acquired select Augment Code assets, including Cosmos and the Auggie CLI products, the Code Context Engine, and related technology.