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Jina Yoon's July 27 piece rejects the premise that agent trustworthiness tracks model quality: "the real answer has nothing to do with the model, and everything to do with the task." She grids delegation on two axes, is the work easy to verify and are mistakes cheap to reverse, yielding Level 0 Assistant (hard to check, costly to undo), Level 1 Human-in-the-loop, Level 2 Delegation gated by safety checks, Level 3 Self-driving. Her claim that scale isn't a factor, get autonomy right at the task level and scale handles itself, is the part I'd want data on. No quantitative results accompany the framework.
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Farid Zakaria's Self-Executing Linux Format uses binfmt_misc to hand the file to an interpreter that maps rows from a segments table and jumps to the entry point, with the program reading its own file via argv[0]. Symbols, relocations and application data all live in tables in...
He set the 4-byte SQLite application ID at offset 68 to "SELF", decomposed an ELF binary's components into rows across a custom schema, and registered a binfmt_misc handler that hands the file to a self-exec interpreter which queries the tables and runs the program. One file,...
Here's the experiment: a team of cooperating agents rebuilds SQLite in Rust from scratch, using only the 835-page manual. No source code. No test suites. No internet. Then it has to pass a held-out sqllogictest suite. It worked. Cursor published the research (Wilson Lin, July...
This one annoyed me, in the good way. Researchers took 206 real developer-agent sessions from 13 developers, extracted each developer's preferences from their actual interaction traces via rule-based bootstrapping plus evidence-grounded refinement, then replayed everything aga...
If you wrote an MCP server before July, it's on a protocol shape the maintainers have already removed. Not deprecated-with-a-migration-window. Removed from the spec. MCP lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky published an updated roadmap on August 22, and the re...
Prompted by Julia Evans admitting on July 17 that she still can't read query plans, Willison had Fable build a tool that runs arbitrary SQL against a SQLite database and renders both EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN and the lower-level EXPLAIN bytecode with per-line plain-English annotation...
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