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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Zencoder announced today the launch of Zen Agents, a platform that enables organization-wide creation and sharing of specialized AI tools for software development. The release includes an open-source marketplace where developers can contribute and discover custom agents, marking a significant shift in how development teams leverage artificial intelligence.While existing AI coding assistants have primarily focused on boosting individual developer productivity, Zencoder’s approach addresses the collaborative reality of modern software engineering, where delays often occur between coding and feedback loops.“If you look at the tools that are used today for real AI in engineering, it’s basically coding agents with an IDE,” said Andrew Filev, CEO and founder of Zencoder, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. “And if you dig even one layer deeper, you’ll find they’re usually focused on the individual developer. It all makes perfect sense, because it all starts with the developer, right?”But Filev points to a critical gap in current solutions: “There’s this whole layer of things that you can do beyond individual engineers, because engineers don’t work alone