# The Agentic Engineer — Full Content Index

> Weekly newsletter on AI agents, cloud architecture, and the tools reshaping how we build software.
> Published by Waltsoft Inc (https://waltsoft.net)

## Issue #1: Mercury 2, Agentic IDEs & The Plumbing Era
URL: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net/archive/mercury-2-agentic-ides-plumbing-era
Audio: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net/audio/mercury-2-agentic-ides-plumbing-era.mp3
Diffusion models are coming for LLMs. The agentic IDE war is heating up. Hugging Face is standardizing agent skills.

## Issue #2: Claude Code Is Picking Your Stack
URL: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net/archive/claude-code-picking-your-stack
Audio: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net/audio/claude-code-picking-your-stack.mp3
Researchers analyzed 2,430 Claude Code responses and found it is quietly building the default developer stack.

## Issue #3: LangChain Just Open-Sourced a Claude Code Replacement
URL: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net/archive/langchain-open-sources-claude-code-replacement
Audio: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net/audio/langchain-open-sources-claude-code-replacement.mp3
LangChain releases Deep Agents, an MIT-licensed Claude Code alternative built on LangGraph. Works with any model. Plus: GPT-5.4 native computer use, Clinejection supply chain attack, Karpathy's autoresearch, and Shannon AI pentester.

## Issue #4: An Autonomous Agent Hacked McKinsey in 2 Hours
URL: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net/archive/autonomous-agent-hacked-mckinsey-in-2-hours
Audio: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net/audio/autonomous-agent-hacked-mckinsey-in-2-hours.mp3
CodeWall's autonomous agent found SQL injection in McKinsey's Lilli AI platform, gaining read/write access to 46.5M messages. Plus: Amazon's AI code governance, Claude 1M context GA, METR's SWE-bench reality check, and Agent Browser Protocol.

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