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AgentsAI can write code faster. Someone still has to review it.A flood of software changes may arrive faster than the people checking it can read. Automated reviewers can help, but a new benchmark exposes their blind spots.
AgentsWhen AI does the work, what does it mean to steer?An agent can carry out a task while its human operator steps back. Researchers are asking what that person needs to see and do to remain meaningfully in control.
AgentsAn AI agent rewrote its instructions. Did it actually improve?An agent can rewrite a skill file. Testing whether that change helps on new tasks is another matter.
AgentsMuse arranged a pickup while the seller was awayAn assistant can reply while its owner is away. A Marketplace pickup shows how quickly replies can turn into decisions with real consequences.
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Shopify compressed instructions that Sidekick had to read over and overReflexion gave AI agents written notes to use on a retry
A compiler written by 16 Claude agents needed a reliable way to divide its bugsGEPA improved AI prompts by reading how a task went wrong
The Darwin Gödel Machine kept old versions of its coding agents in play
Cursor's coding agents got stuck waiting for each otherA study of coding agents found a larger gain in commits than in releasesCoding agents missed more bugs when the answer lay beyond the changed lines
An AI manager gave a worker the day off and closed the storeAsking an agent to do a job still leaves the question of what it may do
A compiler written by 16 Claude agents needed a reliable way to divide its bugsGEPA improved AI prompts by reading how a task went wrongThe Darwin Gödel Machine kept old versions of its coding agents in playCursor's coding agents got stuck waiting for each otherA study of coding agents found a larger gain in commits than in releasesCoding agents missed more bugs when the answer lay beyond the changed linesAn AI manager gave a worker the day off and closed the storeAsking an agent to do a job still leaves the question of what it may do