The Hallway Track

developer-tooling

36 tracked signals on developer-tooling.

A Genius With Amnesia - Victor Savkin, Nx

AI Engineer · Jun 26, 2026

AI coding agents behave like brilliant engineers with no memory, forcing constant re-explanation of context across repos.

“You would have a genius on one side and something deeply deficient on the other. And that's what agents are.”
LangSmith Preview Builds: Test agent changes before production

LangChain · Aug 20, 2026

LangSmith now offers PR-based preview deployments for agents before production

“Preview builds in LangSmith deployment bring that workflow to agents. A pull request gets a temporary deployment that your team can test and share without changing production.”
WWDC26: Code-along: Make your app available to Siri | Apple

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 08, 2026

Apple's WWDC26 code-along shows developers how to make app content and actions available to Siri via the App Intents framework.

“This is how Siri can make everyday things effortless simply with a conversation.”
TypeScript 7 Is Here (And It's 10× Faster)

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jul 27, 2026

TypeScript 7 compiles large codebases 10-12x faster via parallel native type checking

“We actually by default spin up four type checkers and run them concurrently and have them each check a quarter of the file.”
Deploy Google ADK Agents on LangSmith Deployment

LangChain · Jun 05, 2026

LangChain adds support to deploy Google ADK agents directly on LangSmith Deployment.

“You can now deploy a Google ADK agent straight to Langsmith Deployments.”
What’s New in Azure Data: HorizonDB and Rayfin | LIVE143

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 05, 2026

Microsoft announced Azure HorizonDB, a new Postgres service in public preview at Build.

“what we're trying to do with Horizon DB is really serve a very large market by bringing a bunch of new AI capabilities and developercentric tooling in VS Code”
.NET 11 in depth: Runtime, libraries, and SDK for the AI era | OD806

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 04, 2026

.NET 11 SDK optimizes CLI commands and UX for LLM and multi-agent development scenarios.

“with the rise of agents and the sort of accelerated interlude requirements that we have for these repeated multi-agent scenarios we want to make sure that every command you run is as fast as possible”
Build and ship faster with a developer-optimized experience on Windows | BRK261

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 03, 2026

Microsoft published a public Winget config repo that auto-installs a full dev environment (WSL, Ubuntu, git, GitHub CLI, Copilot CLI, VS Code) on Windows.

“So our team has actually put together a Windgate configuration file that does a bunch of this stuff for you.”
SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – August 2026

Microsoft 365 Dev Blog · Aug 27, 2026

Microsoft opens Copilot Components public preview in SharePoint Framework, targeting October 2026 GA.

“Instead of a text-only answer, your agent can bring a real UI – cards, forms, actions, and business data – into the conversation.”
Managed Deep Agents - Tools

LangChain · Aug 19, 2026

LangChain's managed deep agents now support custom tool integration via Python and TypeScript decorators

Run interactive IDEs on Amazon EKS with SageMaker AI to power up your AI workflows

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Aug 10, 2026

AWS SageMaker AI Spaces add-on cuts GPU IDE setup on EKS from days to minutes

“Standing up a standalone JupyterHub environment with GPU access, storage, and authentication typically takes a platform team 3–5 days. With the add-on, a data scientist launches a fully configured Space in about 5 minutes.”
Trailer for Livestream 1 of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 15, 2026

Microsoft showcases its Postgres contributions and Postgres AI tooling like MCP servers in the POSETTE 2026 event trailer.

“We're going to look at the range of ways you can build MCP servers from very exploratory servers where the agents can send full SQL queries to your database”
AIventure: Vibe Coding Journey

Google Developers (Google I/O) · Jun 12, 2026

Google released AIventure, an open-source game teaching vibe coding and agentic workflows with the Gemma 4 open-weights model.

“you have complete flexibility in how the model is served”
Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView

Simon Willison · Jun 09, 2026

Claude Fable 5 launched, but isn't yet in AgentsView's pricing database, requiring a custom-price workaround.

“Claude Fable 5 came out today and wasn't yet included in the pricing database AgentsView uses.”
llm 0.32.1

Simon Willison · Aug 21, 2026

LLM tool 0.32.1 patches broken installs caused by OpenAI dropping httpx dependency

TypeScript updates: Latest Features and What's next | LIVE155

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 05, 2026

TypeScript adds type syntax, a type checker, and a compiler to make large JavaScript apps safer and more maintainable.

“TypeScript was a way to take JavaScript and add syntax for types, and add a type checker and a compiler so that you could bring all the modern features that you know and love today.”
WWDC26: WidgetKit foundations | Apple

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 08, 2026

Apple's WWDC26 session teaches developers the foundations of building WidgetKit widgets with SwiftUI across Apple platforms.

“There are three qualities that make widgets memorable. Widgets are glanceable.”
Simplifying .NET Installs with dotnetup | OD804

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 03, 2026

Microsoft previews dotnetup (NetUp), a unified cross-platform tool for installing and managing .NET SDK versions.

“if you install .NET today, we think you fall into basically one of two buckets”