ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 2 HumanLayer releases since Apr 2025, most recently Agentic IDE on Jun 18, 2026. Highlights include 12-Factor Agents, Agentic IDE. 1 of them shipped with open weights. Every entry below has primary-source links and the episode segment where we covered it live.
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.
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.
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