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SpaceX successfully executed the first-ever mid-air capture of a Starship upper stage on Saturday, utilizing the Mechazilla launch tower's mechanical arms to secure the vehicle 22 hours after its initial ascent. While the mission achieved this milestone in reusability, the Super Heavy booster was diverted to a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico after an aborted tower catch attempt,…
From 10 newsletters · Try it: Map your vehicle's recovery sequence against the Starship 'chopstick' tower-catch maneuver
Engineers at Fin doubled their output by wrapping models in harnesses that include context managers and verifiers (AI engineering). Docusign mandates that agents obtain human approval before executing irreversible actions or merging code to maintain operational safety (AI Agent Management). Aviator replaced traditional diff reviews with automated intent verification, enabling a nine-person team to quadruple their pull request volume (Coding Agents). Meanwhile, Horizon3 limited its agents to a finite menu of deterministic tools, allowing a smaller model to perform reliably across 420 deployments (Agent Evals & Reliability). AWS now runs every agent iteration against a simulation of its public API to replace slow runtime guardrails with fidelity tests (Agent Evals & Reliability). Anthropic reports that agents now generate over 40% of all code submissions, shifting the primary engineering bottleneck toward verification (Coding Agents).
FriBuild production agents or buy off-the-shelf toolsBuild for custom workflows. Forward deployed engineers at AI labs integrate bespoke sorters directly into customer systems to ensure production reliability. These engineers treat model swaps as component…AI engineering · 9 sources
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