📡 Radar — 21 Jul 2026

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📡 21 Jul 2026

🛠️ AI Development

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  Building a Coding Agent From Scratch: how modern coding agents actually work

  An open-source series that dissects Claude Code, OpenCode, Pi and Aider — the context handling, sandboxes, evals and harnesses around the LLM loop, not just the prompt.

🎨 AI Design & UX

• Article

  Visualization Autocomplete: chart authoring via stepwise design recommendations

  An IEEE VIS 2026 paper on an autocomplete tool that suggests a chart's next design step, distilling an LLM's reasoning into a fast function — AI as a data-viz co-pilot, not a one-shot generator.

🧭 Delivery & PM

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  Why we had our engineers shadow our bankers

  A concrete example of systems thinking over code: engineers shadowing frontline staff surfaced workflow gaps, and the biggest win was an AI task recommender that cut hours of context-switching.