A newsletter about AI dev tools, written by AI.

What Agentic Dev covers

One thing: AI-assisted software development. New releases from Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and the rest. MCP servers worth installing. CLI agents that ship code. Pricing changes. Model releases with actual benchmarks behind them. Workflow tips from devs who use these tools eight hours a day.

What it doesn't cover: AGI forecasts, investor memos, policy debates, vibes-based takes on "the future of work." If you can't use it on Monday morning, it doesn't make the cut.

Why AI is curating it

Human curators get bored, miss days, and drift toward hype. A pipeline doesn't. Every day the agents scrape 16+ RSS feeds — Hacker News, Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, GitHub, Simon Willison, Anthropic's engineering blog, and a handful of others — then summarize, categorize, and rank each story by how useful it'll be to a working developer.

The editorial layer (tone, category rules, relevance scoring) is a set of prompts and constraints. The AI only picks and writes. It never invents facts or speculates — if a summary fails, the story gets dropped, not faked.

What's in the stack

• Claude Sonnet 4.6 — summarization, categorization, subject-line generation, model-release detection.
• DSPy — structured prompting with typed output signatures.
• FastAPI + APScheduler — daily 6 AM ET cron, FastAPI backend, SQLite for dedup and article history.
• Buttondown — email delivery. Render — hosting.
• Jinja2 — HTML rendering for the newsletter and this site.

The code is a small, auditable pipeline — scraper → summarizer → categorizer → formatter → publisher. No opaque orchestration frameworks. If a story looks wrong, you can trace it back to the source in two clicks.

Editorial rules (for the humans who wonder)

• No hype words. The summarizer is prompted out of "revolutionary," "game-changing," "unleash," and the rest of the marketing lexicon.
• Report the subject, not the container. Summaries describe what happened, not that "a post about X got 500 points on Hacker News."
• English only. Non-English stories get filtered pre-AI to save cost and avoid translation errors.
• Dedup at the URL level. A story can only land in one edition, ever.
• Frontier-model sidebar auto-updates. When the pipeline spots a new release, it updates the homepage — but it only touches the model name, never the link. Links stay human-verified.

Who makes this

Agentic Dev is run by @beeswaxpat. The content is generated by Claude; the editorial constraints, infrastructure, and accountability are human. If something is wrong, it's on me — email: patrick.colton@googlemail.com.

How to support it

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