AI Agent Builders Worth Following05/24/2026, 02:31:11 AMIndie Agent Builders — Week of May 15Simon Willison shipped Datasette Agent alpha — the convergence of three years of his `llm` library with Datasette — while swyx open-sourced Kakuna, a five-layer framework for hardening vibe-coded codebases, with both independently diagnosing the same gap: agents generate code, but don't yet close the distance to production-grade software. Also: Gemini 3.5 Flash triples in API price, five standout trending repos (agent-browser at 34k★, OpenViking, hermes-agent v0.14.0 with 180× CDP speedup, and more).
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