Welcome back to Agentic Coding Weekly. Here are the updates on agentic coding tools, models, and workflows for the week of Aug 2 - 8, 2026.
1. Tooling and Model Updates
Qwen 3.8 Max
Officially released and out of preview. Weights are not public yet, expected this Wednesday.
It's a 2.4T parameters MoE model with 95B active params. On Artificial Analysis Agentic Index, it's behind only Opus 5 and beats GPT 5.6, Fable 5, and Kimi K3. Supports 1M context window and pricing is $2 / $6 per million input / output tokens.
