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TIL: Using Blender with coding agents on macOS I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac applica

arXiv:2609.04167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repository-level software engineering benchmarks have significantly advanced the evaluation of coding agents, but existing benchmarks primarily measur

arXiv:2609.01861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The performance of an LLM agent depends on the scaffold around a frozen model. A common way to improve that scaffold is to use a coding agent as an opti

arXiv:2609.00365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Command-line coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Gemini CLI) can already read and write files and sustain long sessions, yet end-to-end research still fra

arXiv:2609.01481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies autonomous software development, in which LLM-based coding agents transform high-level requirements into complete, functional, and us

arXiv:2609.00453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Giving an agent a file about a named expert can supply hard-to-find material, produce a recognizable persona, or change what the agent decides. These ar

Not all harnesses are created equal. And there is no one-size-fits-all. A good harness should solve your context engineering problems. Understanding and optimizing lower-level details like system prom

Direct2D has always been the biggest hurdle for Paint.NET on WINE, and it's clear that it will never be completed enough for Paint.NET's use. And I can't just 'disable' the use of Direct2D. So, instea

arXiv:2609.00643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent revisions expose a fundamental correctness--efficiency trade-off during concurrent execution. Discarding ongoing work preserves latest-version cor

Why I have this data: one Pro account kept hitting limits, so I run three Pro subs through 9router, a self-hosted router that sits between my coding tools and ollama cloud. It spreads requests across

arXiv:2608.31057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent working memory is heterogeneous. Objects such as instructions, artifacts, tool outputs, and agent-generated state play different semantic roles an

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat a

This is as bad as saying there is no alpha in customizing your own models. I don't think people realize how much harnesses and models go hand in hand. And thus the rest of the intelligence stack. Not

arXiv:2608.24188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents re-send large file reads and tool outputs to a frontier LLM every turn, and this context dominates their token bill. General-purpose promp

The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is ab

Impressive new paper from Microsoft and colleagues. Harness design is still hand-tuned almost everywhere. This work present an automated loop to optimize the harness. They introduce AutoSaddler, which

arXiv:2608.23552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are sequential processors, but long-horizon agency requires external information and computation beyond model weights and active context

arXiv:2608.21929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent skills extend coding agents with task-specific instructions, scripts, and resources, but they also create a trusted instruction channel that can

arXiv:2608.20622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier models have collapsed the cost of writing custom code: a niche problem a specialist sees in their own domain now costs an afternoon. The cost o

The key skill required to make productive use of coding agents is being able to confidently instruct them on how to make changes and then confidently verify that those changes have been applied in the

Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up

Hi everyone! I’m an intern at Icosa, a startup focused on making local AI accessible. We just released the first version of Zeno, our local AI product, and I thought it might be of interest to this co

Research: A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView Today saw the long awaited release of Bun 1.4, the first stable version since the infamous Rust rewrite a few months ago. Interesti

arXiv:2608.17528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern agents operate inside agent harnesses that manage tools, context, and control flow, making the harness a critical part of the agent system. Our o

Last week I recorded an episode of the Talking Postgres podcast with Claire Giordano on the subject of 'How AI is changing software development'. We had a really great conversation. Here are a couple

I am bullish on simple agent harnesses. Love this idea from Vercel. fx is a new coding agent harness for model benchmarking, sandboxing, evals, and gyms. Introducing fx, a tiny, open, native coding ag

Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for runni

arXiv:2608.13522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are increasingly used for programming, but do not provide any guarantee on the correctness of generated code. Verified code generation, in w

Connect your coding agents to AI Gateway with a single command. • Auto-configure 8 popular coding harnesses • 300+ models from 30+ providers, no markup • Open-weight models with ZDR & US inference ▲ ~

arXiv:2608.11727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a coding agent obeys a rule, it may simply have been going to do that anyway. Existing instruction-following benchmarks cannot tell the difference:

If you write rules in an AGENTS.md, this one is worth your time. When a coding agent follows your rule, it may have been going to do that anyway. Harness-IF separates the two by scoring 256 rules one

arXiv:2606.08348v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM agents increasingly rely on prompts, tools, memory, SOPs, skills, and harness feedback, yet current self-evolution pipelines often update these

SPACEXAI: Grok 4.6 leads on the two strongest knowledge-work / real-world productivity benchmarks (GDPVal-AA and AA-Briefcase) and on the legal benchmark, while remaining highly competitive on coding-

With the smartest person I know, @HarshSensei, we're building evsys-sdk for the community, this open-source repository allows anyone to build their own continual learning system with first-class suppo

arXiv:2608.09072v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model-powered coding agents are increasingly used to modify existing code repositories, for example, by adding features or fixing bugs.

💡The world needs an open-source platform, and that’s exactly what we’re building to give our customers more choice and the flexibility to choose the right model for the right task. As part of this, we

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new ses

Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game

Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as

Back in 2024 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept 'art' created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5

arXiv:2608.01918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Harness design plays a critical role in agent performance by shaping how large language models (LLMs) perceive, reason over, and act within executable

Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the

Set up a nightly cron job that executes the prompt: fetch upstream changes to the <software> and rebase all local changes on top of upstream. Check that the software works as intended and replace the

arXiv:2607.26587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated research systems use experimental scores both to deliver artifacts and to decide which ideas to retain, transfer, and pursue. Yet one run sc

arXiv:2607.28287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: ARC-AGI-3 turns abstraction into an interactive problem of skill acquisition. A player must infer an unfamiliar game's rules, hidden state, and goal w

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Hugging Face just released this extremely detailed technical description of OpenAI's recent accidental cyberat