HumanLayer

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June 2026

HumanLayer
Dev Tools

Agentic IDE

HumanLayer launches an Agentic IDE to fight AI code slop

HumanLayer launched its Agentic IDE, positioned as a human-in-the-loop answer to lights-out coding-agent slop. Dexter Horthy joined the show to argue that the right architecture keeps humans steering high-impact changes instead of letting agents silently trash production codebases.

April 2025

HumanLayer
Dev ToolsOpen weights

12-Factor Agents

Dex Horthy publishes 12-Factor Agents, a guide to production-ready agents

HumanLayer founder Dex Horthy published 12-Factor Agents, an open GitHub repo and essay distilling common patterns and pitfalls for building reliable, production-ready AI agents. Drawing on his experience building agent SDKs, it argues that serious teams end up writing large parts from scratch and lays out principles for robust agent design, discussed in depth on the show.