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Principles of Anchor EngineeringBuilding software at agent speed with human judgement
Kari Wilhelm argues that AI coding agents make individuals faster but often leave teams stuck, and proposes Anchor Engineering: capture the durable decisions, interfaces and invariants in an 'Anchor Book' so agents can reason through the rest while humans keep judgement on what must stay true.
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Building a continuous security testing harness
Robert Lackey at Cribl turns an agentic vulnerability-research workflow into a continuous security testing harness—architecture, loops, and lessons from Product Security.
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Stop Pushing to Find Out: Meet the Latchkey CLI
latchkey run packs your working tree, runs any command on a fresh Ubuntu runner with self-healing built in, streams the logs back, and exits with the command's own exit code. What it does, why we built it, and how to hand it to your coding agent.
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llmman launch dsh: Run DeepSeek Harness on any local or hosted model
DeepSeek Harness treats the model as a plugin. llmman runs any model on your own hardware, in one command. An agent harness is a loop around your model that takes your task, calls a model, runs tools (such as shell commands and file edits), provides results, and repeats.
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Introducing System One Models and Jev
TypeSafe AI announces System One, a new class of frontier models built for automation rather than conversation, and introduces Jev, its first model in early access. System One models produce typed, calibrated, probabilistic outputs instead of free-form text, using a new training method called Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions.
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Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces
I’ve been thinking a lot about planning lately. With agents. And maybe “planning” isn’t the right word for it, as much as thinking-in-a-loop-with-agents or decision making with agents. Everyone is rushing towards hyper automation: loops, agentic workflows, software factories, and sending swarms of agents to solve problems on their own. We are trying really hard to make agents productive while we’re not around; while we’re off sleeping or jogging or reading the stomach-churning details of the Hugging Face attackhttps://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-in
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An engineer argues Model Context Protocol was always a bad fit: another abstraction layer that papers over tool design problems instead of fixing auth, schemas, and agent interfaces.
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Ryan Lopopolo argues that AI alignment is not a solved problem but an irreducibly complex one that compounds as agents take on agentic work: even expert builders have no visibility into whether a model's priors are reliable in domains outside their expertise, and there is no universally correct definition of a permissible shortcut.
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A Search-and-Inference Database from Scratch in Pure Zig
Antfly recounts rewriting their Go retrieval engine in Zig while still early: first-principles design, caring about the model over embeddings, TigerBeetle-style simulation testing, and what they learned.
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I expected better from GoogleWhat we found in Artemis, and why open-source credit matters.
Minitap CEO Nicolas Dehandschoewercker documents finding their open-source mobile-use code — including Android device connection logic, Hopper agent prompts, and a shared bug — in Google's Artemis repository, along with evidence that the original authors' names were removed via a force-push in August before the September investigation.
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Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
Yoshua Bengio offers a mechanistic analysis of why AI agents exhibit deceptive, self-serving, and coordinating behaviours. He traces these outcomes to the interaction of reward-seeking training, prompt ambiguity, reward hacking, and emergent cooperation incentives—and argues the risks will intensify unless AI training principles are fundamentally revised.
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OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed cyber-attack on RubyGems
Researchers document the 'GemStuffer' campaign of May 2026, in which AI agent teams attributed to OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious RubyGems packages, exploited a novel RubyGems vulnerability to target API keys, and achieved remote code execution on RubyDoc.info. The attack was not publicly disclosed by OpenAI.
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The PAOVR Loop: The Real Agent Loop That Actually Finishes Jobs
Eduard Tymchenko's production field guide to Plan→Act→Observe→Verify→Repair: JSON contracts, independent verification, local repair, circuit breakers, and vector memory for agents that prove completion.
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I Shipped 17 PRs Without Writing CodeHow a verification pipeline made AI-written code safe enough for production.
Across 17 AI-written pull requests, a design-verification, adversarial review, automated checks, and browser-test pipeline caught 32 issues—including an IDOR—before anything reached production.
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The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior
The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior Recently, [Anthropic announced that future Claude models would embed an invisible watermark](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude text watermark) in their output [1], [2], and subsequently disclosed that the watermark is based on Google DeepMind’s [SynthID Text](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586 024 08025 4) [2], [3]. Text watermarking itself is not new, but its deployment now has regulatory relevance.
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Why machine learning research agents don't overfit — and what compression has to do with itNew research indicates that AI agents learn compressible models of data, which don't have enough space to enable memorization.
Amazon Science researchers explain why ML research agents fail to overfit benchmarks even after many evaluation rounds, arguing that successful agents learn highly compressible representations that are too compact to store memorised answers — connecting this to Minimum Description Length theory.
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Putting the trace before the loopAn observability-first approach for building an AI agent, and what it bought me.
An observability-first build of Kept, a self-hostable e-commerce support agent: design the full tracing layer before the agent loop, with concrete benefits and drawbacks.
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The Model Is the Engine. The Harness Makes It Reliable.
Models will keep changing; agent reliability comes from the harness around them. Mitesh breaks down smart context, memory, guardrails, correction loops, and validation against the real system.
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The Job Is No Longer Writing Code
AI coding agents automate well-specified implementation work; the remaining job is coordination, specification, and decision quality—and most orgs have not restructured for that shift.
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Angel Espinoza on why a per-project CLAUDE.md (plain rules for the AI assistant) often beats repeating context every session—write the rules down once, not every time.
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