📡 Radar — 29 Jul 2026

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📡 29 Jul 2026

🛠️ AI Development

• Article

  OpenAI's field report on agentic coding in real scientific computing

  A grounded look at eight agent-assisted life-sciences projects — including a 20,000-line C++-to-Rust genomics rewrite and a 60x speedup — with honest notes that humans still owned verification.

• Article

  Autonomous software development: three levels, and what breaks at each

  Berkeley, MIT and Cursor researchers borrow the self-driving autonomy ladder for software: once coding stops being the bottleneck, preserving human intent against spec drift becomes the core problem.

🎨 AI Design & UX

• Article

  Thinking outside the box: digital design in the AI era

  A Smashing Magazine essay, built around the author's own character-based AI assistant, arguing that as AI generates more of the work, human judgment and artistic direction matter more, not less.