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Piotr Wilam extends concept-circuit extraction to code models, disentangling task, programming language, and architecture. If representations converge across independent training runs, probes and steering vectors should transfer between models. It's also the mechanistic argument for why prompt patterns port between Claude, GPT, and open weights.
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Piotr Wilam crossed Python and Rust with Qwen2.5-Coder-7B and DeepSeek-Coder-V1-6.7B, inventorying grammatical concepts (58 Python, 57 Rust) identically in all four cells. Which concepts earn dedicated circuitry is set by the task — the models agree at Spearman rho = 0.638 for...
Everyone spent yesterday arguing about benchmark numbers. Tencent quietly published data suggesting the numbers belong to your infrastructure, not the model. The WorkBuddy Bench leaderboard reports every model under two different agent harnesses — CodeBuddy Code and Claude Cod...
The first systematic study of deceptive UI impact on LLM web agents, accepted at IEEE S&P 2026, tested against real e-commerce, streaming, and news dark patterns. Gemini 2.5 Pro: 65.78% susceptibility. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 53.79%. GPT-4o: 51.26%. Guardrail models and prompt post...
$3,054 against $38,370. Same benchmark, better score. Praxist (arXiv 2608.25955, submitted August 26) replaces per-attempt agent memory with a typed evidence graph of findings, plus lane-structured frontiers and agendas, so later attempts inherit validated mechanisms rather th...
If you have a CLAUDE.md, you're in scope. Today. arXiv 2607.14611 (cs.CR, filed July 16) evaluates prompt injection planted in the persistent memory files that agentic coding systems write and re-read across sessions. The researchers tested both Anthropic's Claude Code and Ope...
GitHub expanded Copilot's Rubber Duck mode with something that caught my attention: cross-family review. Claude now critiques GPT-authored sessions. GPT-5.5 reviews Claude sessions. Two different model families, trained on different data with different failure modes, checking...
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