AI Native Dev - Weekly Newsletter Digest
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- News: 4 original pieces for AI Native developers, and 6 items on our radar.
- Landscape: 10 new tools in our weekly spotlight.
- DevCon: Dive into spec-driven development, agents and next-gen dev tools.
- Podcast: AI-First Project Management for Developers.
News
8 tools in the monthly spotlight: from Agents.md’s structured contracts to Tessl’s agent-agnostic specs — both traffic patterns and our own curation put these tools in the light.
Google Gives AI Agents runtime vision: Chrome's debugging stack bridges models to live browser environments, letting agents inspect, trace, and verify code execution.
The event for spec-driven in NYC: 2-day conference brings spec-driven development, agent orchestration, and security practices to NYC on November 18-19.
GitHub embeds Copilot agent in Microsoft Teams: chat mentions trigger code changes and PRs without leaving conversations, as Codex and Devin follow similar Slack-first patterns.
AI Native Dev Radar
- Customize Claude Code with plugins
- Director @Nvidia: “After 6 months of using AI coding tools”
- Google’s CodeMender: An AI agent for code security
- AI is turning everyone into a programmer
- How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
Landscape
Your Guide to the AI Development Ecosystem
This week brought a wave of new tools, and we’re highlighting:
- Nanochat: by Andrej Karpathy - train your own ChatGPT for $100
- Parallel AI: by ex-Twitter CTO - web data platform built for and with AI.
- Kestra: open-source orchestration platform
- System Initiative: AI-native infrastructure automation
- Chrome devTools MCP server
- Cto.new: completely free AI code agent
- Jam: bug reporting and debugging tool
- QA Wolf: automated end-to-end testing
- Casco: autonomous security testing for AI systems
- MCPMark: MCP benchmark for stress-testing AI agents
Discover more AI dev tools on Landscape.
Join us at DevCon Fall
Early bird tickets now available
On Nov 18–19, 2025, DevCon lands in Brooklyn, New York! For the first time, our global community of AI-native developers will gather in person, and online, to dive deep into spec-driven development, coding agents, next-gen dev tools, and real AI development lessons from the field.
New on podcast
AI-First Project Management for Developers
Alexandru Gavrilescu, creator of Backlog.md, and Simon Maple explore how to give AI the right context and specifications so it can deliver like a human teammate.