I let an AI agent search again whenever it chose. It found some papers plain search had missed, lost some plain search had found, and gained too little to trust.

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I put wrong answers in front of 200 exam questions and read what a small model’s reasoning said when it fell for them.

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Grid puzzles that people solve almost perfectly show where language and vision models still break

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Turn scattered requirements into deployable agents

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Ten quantization guides, and not one threshold-dependent metric between them — what that gap hides, and the two numbers that close it.

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The same three workloads show a much stronger JIT, but it still doesn't help every program

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A hands-on Jev repo comparison of routing accuracy, latency, and output reliability

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Pasting in the whole chat history cost 20 to 31 times more than looking up notes, and it did no better on the tasks.

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Real repositories, seeded agent decisions: what 50,400 runs show about wasted turns, patch churn, and which harness rules help

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Three vision AI models ignored the pretty image, yet GPT-4o invented answers and Claude kept answering B.

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Mapping structural variance against execution outputs to estimate coding agent reliability without ground truth.

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Towards Spec-Driven Test Automation: Part 3

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Benchmarking the impact of fewer, larger files across three SQL workloads

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Here’s how to solve it exactly.

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Retrieval is not evidence. How to build AI that proves its own claims.

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A small adversarial test set that catches the retrieval failures your evaluation set never will

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