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The Complete Guide to Tool Selection in AI Agents 🤖
🦾Plus: 🤯 Apple is Suing OpenAI Over Trade Secret Theft
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In today's edition: Here is roundup of Ollama Hits 9M Users, DevOps Prog Languages 👇
💻Top 15 DevOps Programming Languages to Learn in 2026
⚡Ex-GitHub CEO's startup gives AI agents faster Git
🛠️How coding agents work (from the co-creator of Django)
🤖 Lifelike Companion Robots Are Here
💡 AI Tutorial: How to turn your PDFs into a Claude skill
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
In this article, you will learn why agent accuracy degrades as a tool catalog grows, and six practical techniques for keeping tool selection accurate and efficient at scale. Topics we will cover include: Why adding more tools to an agent causes tool hallucination and accuracy loss, not just slower responses. How gating, retrieval, routing, and planning each narrow down what the model sees before it has to choose a tool.
Talk to your AI tools the way you'd talk to a colleague.
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Programming languages are one of the most important tools in the DevOps arsenal. Choosing the right programming language or languages for your application is essential for succeeding at DevOps and achieving continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)
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The new venture, named Entire, just released its distributed Git network platform. Your code stays on GitHub, but agents can now clone and pull from a nearby mirrored copy. Founder Thomas Dohmke says this setup eliminates the rate limits and latency issues caused by billions of clones hitting a single server. It works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Copilot
You can't get the most out of coding agents without knowing how they actually work. Django co-creator Simon Willison wrote a practical guide to fix that. It explains technical details like system prompts and execution loops without any fluff.
In this tutorial, former Vercel engineer Matt Pocock shows you how to optimize your dev process using v1.1 of the skills repo. You'll find major updates like renamed flow skills (/to-spec, /to-tickets), improved grilling, a full development lifecycle, and the new Wayfinder skill for planning large projects.
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Is your AI analyst lying to you? Tune in to hear Andy and ThoughtSpot SVP of Product Management, Francois Lopitaux, discuss whether a “single source of truth” is actually achievable
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AI News:
This is big. Apple just filed a lawsuit today against OpenAI over allegations of trade secret theft and breach of contract. The iPhone maker alleged the misconduct was a pattern of theft from OpenAI employees who previously worked at Apple and was directed by OpenAI’s senior leadership, including Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan
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Docker’s founders built a one-click magic for open models. Their tool gets them running locally in minutes and they’ve just landed a $65M Series B, plus reached 9M users across most of the Fortune 500.
The uncanny valley now has a price tag. UBTech is mass-producing the UWORLD U1 line, from a half-torso model to full-body editions with silicone skin that reads your tone and processes emotion on-device.
OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role reporting directly to Sam Altman. Simo has been ongoing medical leave for a neuroimmune condition since April, which she says has been longer and harder than expected. She’s transitioning to a part-time advisory role instead.
Meta has axed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI. The feature, which was rolled out earlier this week along with a batch of other AI tools, “missed the mark” and is no longer available, according to the company.
Tune in to hear Andy and ThoughtSpot SVP of Product Management, Francois Lopitaux, discuss whether a “single source of truth” is actually achievable, the possibility of the prompt becoming the new UX, whether agentic AI is the end of the analyst, and much more.
AI Tutorial
How to turn your PDFs into a Claude skill
Go to Claude Code and upload a PDF you want to turn into a Claude Skill
Extract the main system from the PDF: the steps in order, repeated rules, mistakes to avoid, key questions, and what a successful result looks like
Open Claude and ask it to create a ‘SKILL.md’ using this prompt:
“Use the skill-creator to build a skill from the uploaded PDF. Activate when I ask Claude to [exact task]. Core steps: [paste]. Rules: [paste]. Mistakes to avoid: [paste]. Questions used: [paste]. Success looks like: [paste]. Do not use for: [2–3 unrelated tasks]. Ask me anything missing before generating the SKILL.md, then score the skill out of 10.”
Test the skill with different prompts to ensure it activates correctly and asks for clarification when needed.
Upload it in Claude through Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload
Now use your slash command whenever you want Claude to apply the PDF method.
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