📡 Radar — 21 Aug 2026

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📡 21 Aug 2026

🛠️ AI Development

Article
SkillForge: self-distilling agents for project-specific issue resolution
A new arXiv paper (with code) on agents that self-distill on a target codebase to fix its own issues — project-specific rather than general-purpose. Fresh, and not yet independently reproduced.
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What a coding-agent harness actually is (and why you should own yours)
A widely shared breakdown of the four parts of a coding-agent harness — prompt, tools, loop, context — with repos to study. Opinionated framing, but a solid mental model if you're building your own.
via @0xSero ↗

News
FigmaTrace: an open dataset of 200+ hours of real designer workflows
An open dataset of 200+ hours of real designer sessions in Figma — the first sizeable computer-use corpus for long-horizon design work, aimed at training design agents.
via @anandnk24 ↗
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UI/UX Pro Max: an open Claude skill that proposes a design system before you code
An open-source Claude skill that reads your project and recommends colours, type, components and UX patterns before any code — a popular attempt to keep AI-built UIs consistent.

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What 1,858 AI-era product roles say about where the PM job is going
A data-driven read of 1,858 AI-era product and design roles: PM responsibilities are shifting toward building and judging model behaviour — evals, edge cases — over classic spec-writing.
via @rachelwolan ↗