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Bots in Kiro Crew: delegating processes, not sessions

Kiro has made bots generally available in Kiro Crew. A bot is a named, long-running agent with its own memory and workspace, built around one recurring responsibility: it spawns and monitors parallel sessions and reports back into a single chat. The release targets developers who are tired of shepherding many parallel agent sessions by hand.

Devin Review 2.0: automated review on every PR

Cognition announced Devin Review 2.0, now the default PR review tool when working with Devin. The company says the cost of reviewing a PR dropped 82% since August, with a typical review costing $0.25-$0.75. The release adds incremental reviews, auto-review rules and a beta of Custom Reviewers.

A production RAG pipeline for semantic code search: field notes from JetBrains

In the second part of its Air Context series, JetBrains explains how it stores millions of code embeddings and retrieves the right ones in milliseconds. The post covers the pitfalls of filtered approximate search, incremental indexing that keeps up with Git, and why delegating retrieval to a read-only sub-agent saves context.

Service Accounts in Amp: workspace-owned accounts not tied to a single user

Amp introduced Service Accounts: workspace-owned accounts that are not tied to a single user. They carry their own API keys and third-party credentials, and the threads they create are visible to every workspace member, who can also send messages in them. The feature targets shared work such as PR review, documentation upkeep and automations kicked off from CI jobs.

LLM 0.37 adds new models, endpoint setup and a cheaper default

Simon Willison's LLM CLI and Python library reached 0.37, adding the gpt-6.1-sol and gpt-6.1-terra models and an `llm openai endpoint add` command for OpenAI-compatible endpoints. The default model becomes gpt-6-luna at half the previous price, and embeddings now support mixed content-types.