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The weekly · Week 3 · 12 Jan – 18 Jan 2026

AI coding agents: what changed

This week emphasizes developer efficiency through prompt optimization, graph-based orchestration, and local execution, highlighted by DSPy, LangGraph, Qwen2.5-Coder, Ollama, and Awesome CursorRules.

5 picks

02GitHub★ 23,500

DSPy: Algorithmic Prompt Compiler and Model Optimizer

A declarative framework from Stanford that optimizes language model prompts and fine-tunes weights algorithmically, replacing manual prompt engineering in developer pipelines.

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