Tagged tooling
Essays and field notes tagged tooling.
Field notes — week of October 19, 2026
Anthropic ships Claude on Google Cloud and user profiles, OpenAI's Decisions API hits GA, Sierra benchmarks voice agents in five languages, and WPML 5.2 lands.
Field notes — week of October 12, 2026
OpenAI brings custom voices to GPT-Live, Anthropic ships fast-mode GA and OpenTelemetry tracing, and Intercom adds workforce management and skill routing.
Field notes — week of October 5, 2026
Sierra and Meta propose a Personal Agent Protocol, Decagon open-sources PACT, Anthropic ships Haiku 5.5, and DeepL launches an EU-sovereign tier.
Field notes — week of September 28, 2026
Anthropic funds engineer training, OpenAI adds computer use, Sierra and Decagon join OpenAI's marketplace, and Lokalise and Crowdin ship updates.
Field notes — week of September 21, 2026
Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 ship, Sierra argues for transparent agents, Decagon expands to Benelux, and DeepL reaches Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude via MCP.
Field notes — week of September 14, 2026
WPML ships 5.0, Decagon adds Generative Analytics and adversarial testing, Sierra earns AIUC-1 certification, and DeepL Voice preserves speaker tone.
Field notes — week of September 7, 2026
Sierra ships multimodal agents, Decagon governs self-improving Autopilot, Intercom adds Fin connectors, and Lokalise tests AI translation on your own content.
Field notes — week of September 3, 2026
Sierra open-sources a benchmark for agents that build agents, Fin reaches into Snowflake, Intercom times every handoff, and Lilt ships in-context preview.
Field notes — week of August 31, 2026
Anthropic ships ant apply, Salesforce folds Agentforce into every edition, Crowdin and Lokalise post AI-quality updates, Decagon details inference gains.
Field notes — week of August 27, 2026
Claude Fable 5.1 launches, Salesforce pushes agents into full workflows, Intercom syncs translated replies, and Decagon adds campaigns and web search.
Field notes — week of August 25, 2026
Fin gets memory, Zendesk bundles triage for free, Salesforce moves into Claude, Sierra dials the IVR, and the EU's bot-disclosure rule takes effect.