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• AI Agents Are Dumb Robots, Calling LLMs

  By Alex Williams| The New Stack Verified It sounds like a robot cartoon: Robots will rule! AI agents will rise! The software will die!Cue the howling laughter of some oversized, demonic, armor-covered lizard nerd. But really, are we headed this way? We know software won’t go poof and evaporate. That sounds more like a serverless joke. It’s ephemeral!But Mark Hinkle, CEO and founder of Peripety Labs, is bullish on AI agents on this episode of The New Stack Makers.

  By Alex Williams · The New Stack

  Mar. 20, 2025

• OAuth Works for AI Agents, but Scaling Is Another Question

  By Alex Williams| The New Stack Verified Maya Kaczorowski had started getting questions about AI identity and AI agent identity from people who did not have a primary place in the security industry. “And it was very interesting because I just spent the past several months before that talking to a lot of CISOs and security leaders about the top pain points that they have, and this is not something that they were bringing up,” Kaczorowski said on the latest episode of The New Stack Makers.

  By Alex Williams · The New Stack

  Feb. 27, 2025

• Writing Code About Your Infrastructure? That's a Losing Race

  By Alex Williams| The New Stack Verified Writing code about your infrastructure will give way to building models for assembling the automation. It means thinking about how to create systems that people can see and act on quickly, bypassing what historically involved building out diagrams and managing code reviews.

  By Alex Williams · The New Stack

  Feb. 13, 2025

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The New Stack

The New Stack is a tech media company based in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2014. It focuses on the services and infrastructures that developers create, examining the cultural impact of these technologies on work and life. The company provides insights into how software stacks influence enterprises, startups, developer communities, and the DevOps movement. The New Stack offers a range of content and services, including in-depth news articles, podcasts, videos, and interviews with industry leaders. It covers trends in software development, cloud computing, and digital transformation, and provides event coverage from relevant conferences. The company serves a diverse audience within the tech industry, including developers and businesses involved in cloud computing and software development. Insight Partners is an investor supporting its growth in the tech media space.