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What stays when the agent harness gets thinner?
As models improve, what is still worth building around them? Three October 2026 videos, checked against the evidence: the harness moves cost more than accuracy.
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A new robotics paper is titled around topology. Its own appendix shows the topology is not what finds the doorways.
A cited read of a three-day-old preprint on transferable robot subgoals: a real idea, an honest baseline, an abstract figure 3.3x the result, and a control that moves the credit.
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A new AI paper claims a 2.29x efficiency gain. The real number is closer to 1.21x.
A cited look at a new AI reasoning-compression paper: a real method, verified numbers, and one headline figure that bundles two separate effects into one.
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DTCC is moving real securities onto blockchain rails. Here's what's actually true.
A cited look at DTCC's SEC no-action-letter-backed tokenization pilot: what's confirmed, what's still unverified, and what hasn't launched yet.
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The charge that almost happened twice
A payment webhook with no idempotency guard, one retry away from double-charging real customers. How it surfaced and what the fix actually required.
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The migration that almost ate a taxonomy
A production migration was about to trust a line of documentation that was wrong. What we caught, what we did about it, and why the catch is the product.