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It's well known that agents hack benchmark rewards. The usual response is a patch for each task that gets exploited. In a study of 456 adjudicated trajectories from more than 31,000 public agent runs,

Learn to build a harness, folks. It's not surprising to me that so many YC builders want to build domain-specific harnesses. If you work long enough on a domain-specific problem, you quickly realize t

Self-improving agents are a top research topic right now. This new survey is a good map of the area. (bookmark it) It splits recursive self-improvement into stages of autonomy. An agent first executes

Very interesting paper if you are building with agents. How should a website tell an AI agent what it may access, for what purpose and at what price? robots.txt can only allow or disallow paths. It ca

What happens if you agents to run a town's economy? This super interesting paper provides some insights: They put 100 LLM agents in charge of a town economy for 26 simulated weeks, and they find that

Agents API is a bigger deal than it seems. OpenAI's bet on making the Codex harness open-source could pay off big time here. This harness-as-a-service idea hasn't hit mainstream yet, but some of the m

Great paper on self-evolving agent harnesses. Self-evolving agent harnesses have two practical problems: 1. Search is slow, because every candidate harness needs repeated agent runs and code edits. 2.

Harness engineering is a top skill right now This new Meta paper is a good production example. Auto-RecSys runs autonomous research on Meta's industry-scale recommendation models, where one training r

Interesting paper from Microsoft. If you run persistent memory for a production agent, this one is worth your time. (bookmark it) Memory curators usually read only the finished trajectory. That lets t

Very cool paper on memory compression for agents. If you run many agent sandboxes in parallel for RL or evals, memory becomes highly redundant. This work suggests that compressing against that redunda

Another brilliant paper from Meta. This one is worth reading if you work on production-grade ranking or recommendation systems. Meta deployed an autonomous agent that runs the ML iteration cycle acros

Another goated release by DeepSeek. Open weight, btw. Outperforms Opus 5 on key benchmarks, btw. Lower prices too. Looks like an extremely efficient model. What a legendary run. 🚀 Introducing DeepSeek

Another interesting approach to self-evolve agent skills. But it's important to know that skill self-evolution loops fail in two specific ways: 1. Direction instability. Effective corrections get over

Great paper from AWS. I use a similar setup where an agent orchestrator sits on top of a multi-agent system. (bookmark it) This work introduces one of the many approaches available to manage compound

If you run automated prompt or harness evolution, this one is worth your time. (bookmark it) Semantic-gradient prompt optimization improves an agent harness from execution feedback, but its local upda

Nice paper from Salesforce on co-evolving harnesses and models. Harness engineering is a hot topic right now. So this is a great read. (bookmark it) Salesforce evolved a harness with a weak model acro

Recommended read. As the world becomes more agentic, we will start to see world models of different shapes. As an example, I find this “business world model” from @lightfld fascinating as a way to mod

Recommended read. Interaction horizon scheduling is an underexplored control problem in agentic RL This paper from the Qwen team takes a closer look at the problem. Scaling the maximum number of envir

This is a brilliant paper. It's of the cleanest long-context agent designs I have seen in the past couple of months. Sequential memory agents read chunks one after another while maintaining a compact

Another banger paper from Google. If you build memory for long-horizon agents, this one is worth your time. (bookmark it) Really nice to see how knowledge graphs are being explored in creative ways fo

Banger report from Microsoft. (bookmark it) They show that it's possible to build competitive small coding agents without traditional distillation from frontier models. This is a big deal! The work de

Good work on improving memory for long-horizon agents. They separate two things that agent memory papers usually collapse into one. How memories get merged when they are written, and how retrieved con

Great study on what actually predicts vibe-coding ability. 100 tertiary-level students completed measures of computer-science achievement, domain-general cognitive skills and written-communication pro

It's crazy how far small models can be pushed. Robbyant just open-sourced LingBot-World 2.0 Small, a 1.3B world model that generates an interactive world in real time on a single consumer GPU. Same pa

Nice paper to improve inference efficiency. It's been a while we haven't seen good work on efficiency. Here is why it matters: A long-running agent's workspace outgrows its context window long before

Qodo has released the Agentic Toolbox, enabling Claude Code, Codex, Kiro, and Cursor to directly utilize QodoAI’s review engine, codebase knowledge base, and team‑specific rules. The launch was announ

This is a really neat benchmark. It's super interesting that Astra starts strong and holds the lead for up to 19 hours, but Fable 5.1 catches up in the final hours. Not entirely clear why. Different m

Wild paper from Microsoft and colleagues. They show a new attack that reconstructs the text a local LLM generates by watching CPU cache activity while it detokenizes. Earlier cache attacks needed some

Finally a good paper testing whether an LLM's mathematical knowledge has coherent structure or just coherent accuracy. There is a lot of interest in using LLMs for advancing math. This is a great read

🤯 For the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem solution, OpenAI says they used a next-generation model that is significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra. If GPT-6 Astra is this good already, imagi

It feels like GPT-6 Astra has no limits. It just built this human anatomy with ~4K structures. I wanted to look closely at what Astra was doing. Notes: I can explore at different levels and select any

Nice report on agents beyond code generation. Here is why it matters: Coding agents raise how much code gets written. This report argues the gains shrink sharply between writing code and shipping reli

A few days ago, Anthropic shared this brilliant prompt. I was surprised by how it significantly improved writing with Fable 5.1. Even more surprising, it also improved writing for GPT-5.6 Sol. I have

Brilliant paper from LinkedIn. (bookmark it) I have been saying that memory is one of the most challenging things to get right when building agents. It's an are you want to invest time in optimizing.

// Design Docs Are All You Need // Banger paper from Google DeepMind, MIT, and colleagues. What a genuinely strange and interesting paper this one is. Here is the setup: They maintain a performance-mo

// Evaluating and Improving LLM Self-Modeling // Really interesting paper. Can a model answer questions about its own behavior? The questions are deliberately verifiable, such as whether a particular

Fascinating paper from Anthropic and colleagues. They study whether models can tell when they are being tested. It turns out that capable models can tell when they are being tested rather than deploye

// From Language Models to World-Acting Systems // A critical review of agentic AI, and a framework that is genuinely useful for deciding how much authority to hand an agent. Here is how it works. The

Really strong benchmark paper on coding agents. Claude Opus 5 running under Claude Code passes 23.9% of the evaluations. An expert human reference scores 82.2%. Here is what the task actually is. The

Super interesting paper on proactive agents from Google DeepMind. (bookmark it) Proactive assistance usually means autocomplete. Researchers asks what it looks like when an agent offers higher-level c

In September 2026, user @omarsar0 tested GPT‑6 Astra by converting the original Transformer paper into a highly interactive web visualization. The resulting interface demonstrates GPT‑6’s capability t

This is insane! GPT-6 Astra built this beautiful math animation in one go! (🔉 sound on) 'Jaw-on-the-floor' moment. I've not been able to get anything close to this with previous AI models. True person

Banger paper from Google DeepMind. Every AI weather model so far has been trained and initialized on analysis data, which is itself the output of another model. That means the forecast inherits whatev

Banger paper from Microsoft and Cornell. If you have looked at thinking tokens and decided you cannot afford the context, read this one. (bookmark it) A pause token buys the model extra compute for ea

This is a weird behavior in coding models and something worth looking into. It turns that some models over-edit code that another models wrote. There is a high chance that your repo now has commits fr

Banger paper from Tencent on environment evolution. Environment supply is becoming the main limit on agent RL. So this is worth a read. (bookmark it) Agent RL needs a steady supply of environments har