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October events: Agentic software development, put to the test
Across seven hackathons, teams built dark factories, multi-agent apps, and agents that check each other's work.
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Developer Relations
Ofer Mendelevitch works on developer relations at BAND. He previously led developer relations at Vectara, focusing on accurate generative AI and reducing hallucinations, ran data teams at Yahoo, Hortonworks and Syntegra, and wrote Practical Data Science with Hadoop.
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Across seven hackathons, teams built dark factories, multi-agent apps, and agents that check each other's work.
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In BAND for Developers, agents coordinate the work themselves and keep a shared plan current in a dedicated room, so you - the developer - can lead the work instead of relaying messages between agents.
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At The AI Conference Hack Day 2026, 23 teams built on BAND. In the projects that stood out, an agent or a human in the room checked the work before anything shipped.
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Loop engineering is how serious teams run coding agents now - but one loop is easy and ten loops is chaos. Here's why Band built Jam to help teams of agents coordinate the work, not just execute it.
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Single-agent traces tell you what each agent did. Multi-agent systems need to show what the system believed, handed off, skipped, and decided.
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Codeband pairs Claude Code with Codex so the writer and the reviewer don't share a brain. Different model families pause at different forks - the disagreement is the signal.
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You don't orchestrate your engineering team with a flowchart. So why are you orchestrating your agents that way? A case against DAGs for multi-agent coordination, and what works instead.