AI agents in practice

AI agents promise to do multi-step work on their own. This topic looks at what actually works today: real automations, no-code agent builders, coding agents and the guardrails you need before letting an agent touch your email, files or spreadsheets.

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Workflows & Automation

AWS Strands Agents Team Introduces Strands Harness: An Open-Source Agent Harness That Cuts Token Costs by 28% While Maintaining Comparable Accuracy

AWS Strands Agents team introduced Strands Harness, an open-source, general-purpose agent harness that bridges the gap between prototype and production. Licensed under Apache 2.0 with Python and TypeS…

Sep 22, 2026

Tool Reviews

StepFun Unveils Step 5 Preview: A Mixture-of-Experts Model with 600B Parameters (27B Active) and 1M Context Window Built for Extended Agentic Tasks

StepFun launched Step 5 Preview, a flagship sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 600B total parameters (27B active per token) and a 1M-token context window, targeting agentic workloads like coding, re…

Sep 22, 2026