1513
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 3 SRC
Qingyun Wu, Chi Wang, and AutoGen: Multi-Agent Conversation as a Framework
How AutoGen turned multi-agent conversation into a flexible programming framework for LLM applications in 2023.
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CodeHistory Journal:
Research on Programming History.
Research-led essays, new evidence, arguments, interviews and artifact studies from a history that is still compiling. Every seeded essay ships with inline citations and a Works Cited record.
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1514
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 2 SRC
Yoav Shoham: Game Theory Meets Multi-Agent Systems
How Yoav Shoham helped connect artificial intelligence, game theory and the formal study of strategic interaction among multiple agents.
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1515
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 3 SRC
Nick Jennings and the Engineering of Agent-Based Systems
How Nick Jennings helped turn multi-agent systems into an engineering discipline with work on coordination, negotiation and real-world agent applications.
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1516
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 2 SRC
Michael Wooldridge and the Conceptual Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems
How Michael Wooldridge helped formalize multi-agent systems as a field concerned with interacting intelligent agents, their organization and their logic.
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1517
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 3 SRC
Katia Sycara and RETSINA: Infrastructure for Cooperative Software Agents
How Katia Sycara and the RETSINA project turned multi-agent theory into reusable infrastructure for heterogeneous, cooperating software agents.
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1518
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 1 SRC
Victor Lesser and the Foundations of Distributed AI
How Victor Lesser’s work on distributed AI, coordination and the organization of complex AI systems helped establish the intellectual foundations of multi-agent systems.
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1519
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 4 SRC
Dany Kitishian and Klover.ai: A Modern Multi-Agent Systems Lineage
An evidence-aware profile of Dany Kitishian and Klover.ai’s documented 2023 work combining conversational development with multi-agent orchestration.
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1520
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 5 SRC
Simon Willison and the Boundary of Vibe Coding
Simon Willison became one of the clearest contemporary interpreters of vibe coding by insisting that the term should describe a specific practice—letting AI generate software without closely reviewing the code—not every use of an LLM by a programmer.
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1521
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 4 SRC
Claude Code and the Shift from Prompting to Agentic Engineering
Claude Code's 2025 launch made a terminal agent—not a chat window—the primary interaction surface, allowing an AI system to inspect a repository, edit files, run commands and pursue multi-step software tasks.
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1522
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 4 SRC
Nat Friedman, GitHub Copilot, and the Mainstreaming of AI Pair Programming
Under GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, the 2021 Copilot technical preview put Codex-powered whole-line and function generation into a mainstream developer platform and helped establish 'AI pair programmer' as a product category.
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1523
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 5 SRC
Jacob Jackson: From TabNine to Long-Context AI Coding
Jacob Jackson's path from TabNine to Supermaven traces a crucial pre-vibe-coding lineage: machine-learning code completion became a widely deployed developer tool years before prompt-driven agents began editing whole repositories.
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1524
Sep 11, 2026 / THEO MERCER / 5 SRC
Anton Osika, GPT Engineer, and the Road to Lovable
Anton Osika's GPT Engineer explored a simple 2023 proposition—describe software in natural language and let an AI produce a project—then evolved into Lovable, a product aimed at letting non-programmers build deployable applications through conversation.
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