AI’s not-so-secret agents

The buzz around agentic AI is getting louder, and this month’s picks showcase the breadth of what is possible—or in some cases, not yet possible. Spin up an AI agent of your own with Google’s new Agent Development Kit, take notes on how Deutsche Telekom scaled its agent platforms for enterprise deployment, and see for yourself what happens when you let agents “vibe” their way through a nontrivial coding task.

Top picks for generative AI readers on InfoWorld

The ultimate software engineering abstractionNow seems like a good time to remember we once thought compilers would never match our ability to craft assembly code. In the not-so-distant future, says columnist Nick Hodges, code itself could be a mere implementation detail.

What you absolutely cannot vibe code right nowNot too long ago, InfoWorld’s Andrew Oliver had good things to say about vibe coding, but that was before a recent AI-assisted disaster.

Get started with Google Agent Development KitWhat if you want to build AI agents, rather than using them to build something else? Here’s a first look at using Google’s new Agent Development Kit to create AI agents in Python.

How Deutsche Telekom designed AI agents for scaleThe German telecom giant deploys genAI extensively to assist with sales and customer service. A former engineering and architecture lead walks you through how they built an enterprise-scale agentic AI platform to serve as a foundation.

More top stories and genAI news bites

AI coding tools can slow down seasoned developers by 19%

How agentic AI will transform mobile apps and field operations

AWS’s Kiro signals the next phase of AI coding tools

Cognition agrees to buy what’s left of Windsurf

Akka releases platform for agentic AI

Does public cloud AI cost too much?

Generative AI updates elsewhere

LLMs are guessing login URLs, and it’s a cybersecurity time bombIt’s cool that ordinary users are now using AI chatbots as search engines. But when asked for links to login pages for financial institutions, LLMs frequently offer up hallucinated URLs—some of which are phishing sites.

The companies betting they can profit from Google search’s demiseIf genAI is the new search engine, then the optimization to match it can’t be far behind. Here’s how a slew of startups are aiming to provide SEO services for the new age.

Japan using generative AI less than other countriesJapan has a well-deserved reputation for being a high-tech hub. But a recent survey found that generative AI isn’t catching on there, with use lagging far behind China and the United States.