Building an agentic system? Start with a direct model call. Add an SDK, gateway, runtime, or channel abstraction only when it solves a recurring engineering problem. Part 2 of our series on agentic systems: latentsignal.org/blog/agentic...

Agentic Systems: Abstraction Layers

A guide to model providers, SDKs, AI gateways, agent runtimes, and channels, with a mental model for choosing which layers your application needs.

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“Agentic systems” can refer to very different kinds of systems. In our new series on building agentic systems, the first post maps the autonomy spectrum—from simple model calls to systems that plan, use tools, and act with limited supervision. 🧵 1/3

We also offer a half-day in-person session for small product, design, and engineering groups; even folks who don't code day-to-day leave with a working prototype and a shared playbook. 👉 Reach out at: latentsignal.org/workshop/pri...

Private team workshop — Latent Signal

Bring the Claude Code agentic coding workshop to your team in person. Tell us about your team and we will get back to you with a tailored proposal.

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We've opened our free and self-paced Agentic Coding workshop. Build a real-time, multi-user Idea Board with Claude Code - deployed to Vercel on your own URL in 3-4 hrs. AI foundations + 9 hands-on steps. For anyone who wants to understand how agents actually behave. latentsignal.org/workshop

We've opened our free and self-paced Agentic Coding workshop. Build a real-time, multi-user Idea Board with Claude Code - deployed to Vercel on your own URL in 3-4 hrs. AI foundations + 9 hands-on steps. For anyone who wants to understand how agents actually behave. latentsignal.org/workshop

Workshop - Latent Signal

Free, self-paced workshop on agentic coding. Build and deploy a real-time Idea Board app from scratch in 3-4 hours.

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To test GLM 5.2, we utilized it in opencode.ai with the following task: Migrate the Umami project from Postgres to SQLite. This task is not particularly challenging because it has been attempted before, and Umami utilizes @prisma.io, which already supports SQLite. github.com/umami-softwa...

GitHub - umami-software/umami: Umami is a modern, privacy-focused analytics platform. An open-source alternative to Google Analytics, Mixpanel and Amplitude.

Umami is a modern, privacy-focused analytics platform. An open-source alternative to Google Analytics, Mixpanel and Amplitude. - umami-software/umami

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The rollout of GLM Coding Plan from Z.ai appears a bit rushed, to be honest. There’s a 5-hour quota, but the usage dashboard doesn’t indicate when the quota will expire. Or am I misunderstanding something?

I didn’t want to sit on a Show HN page waiting for new comments, so I asked Gemini to write a small script that watches Firebase and sends Pushover notifications to my phone. I ran it once and left it alone. This morning I woke up to a stack of comment alerts.

Left: Our Projects page in prod Right: Clone built by GLM 5.2 + pi with a screenshot of the page Result - Not the best output, but close. However, we're impressed that GLM built it without image support - thanks to pi asking gemini CLI to extract colors, font, text from the screenshot upfront.

We posted Memento in Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855... Join the conversation and tell us what you think. We would love to hear your feedback.

We’ve been following the trend of Agentic Search. So, we thought, wouldn’t it be fascinating to do agentic search on top of your emails? We could incorporate some LLM wiki concepts as well. We created Memento to illustrate this. This video provides a clear explanation. youtu.be/Ms1KeAYCN2A

Memento Demo: Your Email Remembers More Than Your Inbox Shows You

YouTube video by Latent Signal

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Hello Bluesky 👋 We’re @annjose.com and @georgeck.me, two software engineers building, writing, and teaching at the intersection of AI, software engineering, and product development. We focus on moving past AI hype by building projects, and developing mental models for how software is changing.