#29: One Agent Replaces HR. Another Builds iOS Apps in Minutes. And You’re Still Typing?

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🧑‍💼 Meet Sara: Your AI Hiring Teammate

Teammates.ai just launched Sara, their newest AI agent built to radically streamline hiring- from job description to final shortlist - with no prompts, no scheduling, and no guesswork.

Sara is not your typical resume screener. She autonomously screens thousands of candidates per hour, across 50+ languages and dialects (yes, even Arabic dialects). Just upload a job description - Sara handles the rest.

What Sara Actually Does:

  • Adaptive, bias-aware interviews: Sara talks with candidates directly and adjusts in real-time - providing a personalized, objective experience at scale.

  • Plug-and-play with your stack: Native integrations with your ATS + Zapier hooks into thousands of apps = instant workflow fit.

  • Generates real hiring insight: Each candidate gets a shareable report breaking down strengths, weaknesses, and benchmarks - technical and behavioral. No gut feel required.

  • Designed for speed and quality: Hire in days not weeks, cut screening costs by 85%, and surface 5x more top performers.

Why It Matters

Sara isn’t just another AI tool - it’s a fully autonomous hiring agent. With human-like conversation skills and enterprise-ready compliance, it doesn’t just scale recruiting - it transforms it. If your product touches HR tech, vertical agents, or automated decision systems, this launch is a signal: The hiring funnel is now an agent domain.

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⚡Replit’s Dynamic Intelligence for Agents

Replit is supercharging its coding agent with the introduction of Dynamic Intelligence, a trio of upgrades that make its Agent tool smarter, more context-aware, and capable of tackling complex development tasks with minimal prompting .

  • Extended Thinking
    The agent now slows down to think. It outlines its reasoning step-by-step before executing - ideal for debugging tricky issues or designing multi-layered features.

  • High Power Model
    Need higher accuracy? Toggle in a more powerful model behind the scenes (e.g., Claude Opus) to handle critical logic, complex databases, and heavy integrations.

  • Web Search
    The Agent can now pull real-time, web-based info to fill knowledge gaps - helpful for working with new libraries, APIs, or live documentation.

Each feature can be toggled per request - letting you tailor your agent to the task at hand.

Why It Matters:

  • Deeper reasoning, fewer cycles: Extended Thinking helps the agent come up with better plans early - reducing back-and-forth debugging.

  • Adaptive power: Switch to High Power when the stakes are high - like performance tuning, complex flows, or critical security code.

  • Contextual awareness: Web Search keeps the agent current - so you're coding with the latest best practices and dependencies.

Takeaways:

  • Use the combo: Web Search for context, Extended Thinking for clarity, and High Power for precision.

  • This isn’t just assistive - it’s agent-native problem solving.

  • As agents get dynamic, you're not just faster - you’re more confident shipping complex logic.

🚀 WAGMA: “We Are All Gonna Make Apps”

YC-backed a0.dev just dropped Phase 1, unveiling its bold new mantra: WAGMA - We Are All Gonna Make Apps. This update transforms a0.dev from a vibe coding playground into a full-stack mobile app engine.

  • Lightning-fast iOS builds: Generate, sign, host, and install IPA builds within seconds right from your phone.

  • One-click App Store deployment: Auto-generates provisioning profiles and submits to App Store Connect with a single wizard click.

  • Agent Mode + Thinking + Turbo Model: These agentic capabilities let the platform read your codebase, inject logic, debug, and iterate at turbo speed.

  • Monetization & Stripe integrations: In-app subscriptions and web payments now plug in effortlessly.

  • GitHub, Convex, project cloning, UI revamp: Robust developer workflows, collaborative infrastructure, and improved UX rounding out the experience.

Why It Matters:

  • Turns ideas into apps faster than ever: a0.dev slashes friction from concept to launch, enabling anyone to ship fully functional React Native apps in minutes.

  • Agent-native from the core: This isn’t AI bolted on—it’s woven into the core execution flow. Agents read, reason, and act on your projects.

  • WAGMA is a movement: With 100k+ early users rallying behind the mantra, a0.dev could redefine indie app startups - where solo devs launch real businesses without writing a line of deployment setup.

If you build AI agents for code, mobile, or deployment speed, a0.dev is a signal. Their agent-first workflow shows that agents can own the entire dev lifecycle, from scaffolding UI, to code-backend logic, to app store rollout, all in-carried by agent autonomy.

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Other News Headlines

  • Qualcomm announced a strategic partnership with AI startup MoBagel to integrate MoBagel’s agentic AI into Qualcomm’s edge-computing platforms. (source)

  • Construction software maker Handoff rolled out an AI assistant that reads building drawings and photos to automatically generate detailed project estimates. (source)

  • arXiv paper introduces “AI Research Agents” that use systematic search strategies to automate machine learning tasks, achieving state-of-the-art results on a Kaggle-style benchmark (boosting solve rate from 39.6% to 47.7%). (source)

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  4. Microsoft: Generative AI for Beginners

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🎓 Must Read Papers

  1. KPMG: AI Quarterly Pulse Survey: Q2 2025 (Doc)

  2. Stanford University: Future of Work with AI Agents (Doc)

  3. Google: Guide for using AI at work (Doc)

  4. Google: An Introduction to AI Agent Security (Doc)

  5. Thomson Reuters: Agentic AI 101 (Doc)

  6. OpenAI: A Practical Guide to building Agents (Doc)

  7. BCG: AI at Work (Doc)

  8. ServiceNow: Enterprise AI Maturity Index 2025 (Doc)

  9. IBM: Agentic AI in Financial Services (Doc)

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