Andrew Ng's The Batch: coding agent workflows, enterprise data policies, GLM-5.3-Flash
JMannhart · x · 2026-09-05
Highlights from DeepLearningAI's The Batch:
- Andrew Ng argues steering coding agents is a fast-evolving core AI engineering skill, distilling a workflow from interviews with top AI engineers: planning (brainstorming, specs, execution plans), execution (build/test/verify with calibrated agent autonomy), deployment and monitoring.
- OpenAI and Anthropic unveiled new enterprise data retention policies.
- Zai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a cost-efficient open-weights multimodal model.
- Thomson Reuters launched a 397B-parameter model trained for law, finance, and news.
Related event: Andrew Ng: Driving Coding Agents Is a Core AI Engineering Skill(3 posts)→
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