[EN] ByteSized: AI, agents and coding

English edition: As part of our ByteSized series, we are going through some of the (many) aspects of AI assisted coding with my guests Robert Chatley (Imperial College London, UK), Reece Walsh (Newcastle Uni., UK) and Faruk Diblen (eScience Centre, Amsterdam, NL). 

Links:

• https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/agentic-coding/ A good run-through of agentic coding by MIT/USA
• https://martinfowler.com/bliki/AgenticProgramming.html Martin Fowler on agentic coding
• https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/agent-pull-requests-are-everywhere-heres-how-to-review-them/ here's GitHub's suggestions on how to deal with AI generated pull requests
• https://github.com/fdiblen/rseng-agent-skills Faruk Diblen's set of SKILLS for research software engineering
  • https://ai-declaration.org and here is Faruk's AI declaration website and tool
• https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/getting-started/intro Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropic
• https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/report/AI-Assisted_Software_Development_Policy_for_UCL_Advanced_Research_Computing/34070631?file=69660984 an example policy of how to deal with AI assisted coding tools - from UCL (University College London, UK)

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