📡 Radar — 03 Aug 2026

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📡 3 Aug 2026

🛠️ AI Development

• Post

  Google DeepMind now allows AI agents in engineering interviews

  GDM's AGI Safety team now lets candidates use AI agents during engineering interviews — a concrete signal that agent fluency is becoming a hiring criterion rather than a red flag.

• News

  DeepSeek is building 'Harness', its own Claude Code rival

  DeepSeek is staffing a 'Harness' team to build a Claude Code-style coding agent — still an internal beta with nothing public to try, but a sign a major lab sees the harness as the battleground.

• Repo

  Agentic Design Patterns — a free 424-page hands-on guide

  Antonio Gulli's free book and companion notebooks catalogue agent-building patterns — routing, memory, human-in-the-loop, multi-agent comms and safety guardrails — as a working reference, not hype.

🎨 AI Design & UX

• Article

  Designing for the proxy: when AI reads your work first

  Argues AI systems are now the 'first reader' of your work, and warns against optimising for that machine proxy at the human's expense — the real question is what a designer should refuse to optimise.