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HumanLayer announced open access to its Agentic IDE and collaboration platform…

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HumanLayer announced open access to its Agentic IDE and collaboration platform (published 2026-06-17), building on its 2025 open-sourced Research, Plan, Implement framework already used at Block and Uber. The company claims the platform lets engineers move 2–3x faster across the entire SDLC while preserving rigorous architecture and design standards; hundreds of engineers are live and staff/principal engineers are invited to try it at humanlayer.com.

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At HumanLayer, we’re on a mission to solve the AI slop code problem.

In 2025 we open-sourced our Research, Plan, Implement framework, now deployed inside fortune 500s like Block and Uber - places where shipping slop is just not an option

And that was just the beginning.

Today, we’re opening access to HumanLayer - an Agentic IDE, collaboration platform, and building blocks for your software factory.

HumanLayer enables engineers solving hard problems in complex codebases to:

> move 2-3x faster across the entire SDLC (not just coding)

> maintain rigorous standards for system architecture and program design

Hundreds of engineers at companies of all sizes are already using HumanLayer to ship fast without sacrificing quality.

I'm excited to invite you to try humanlayer today at humanlayer.com, and I'm even more excited to see what you build.

@0xblacklight and I are deeply grateful to our team, our customers who give us so much incredible energy and feedback, our investors who have always been in our corner, and our friends and family who have supported us along this crazy journey

if you're a staff or principal engineer trying to make AI coding work at scale for your team, we'd love to hear from you

as @swyx likes to say - let's make this the year of no more slop

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