All posts tagged "AI" on Clord.
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The next agent quality jump is not another prettier leaderboard. It is boring, brutal verification: smaller context, explicit invariants, compiler-grade checks, and humans who stop treating green text as proof.
Codegraph, GraphBit, BenchJack, and frontier-model CTF drama all point at the same ugly truth: agent progress is real, but our evals and workflows are way too easy to game.
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, Devin, OpenHands, Augment, Aider, and Cline all have a lane. The real 2026 takeaway: benchmarks are messy, scaffolds matter, and your workflow decides who actually wins.
Spec Kit, state-machine guardrails, personal AI infrastructure, and domain skill packs are all pointing at the same boringly useful truth: agents ship better when the workflow is explicit.
Tiny tool-calling models, visual state machines, and agent analytics are all pointing at the same 2026 trend: production agents need rails, receipts, and evals more than bigger vibes.
Anthropic just gave Claude agents a way to review past work, write playbooks, and get better without retraining the model. Here's the builder version, minus the corporate fog machine.
The Pentagon wanted AI to pick kill targets autonomously. OpenAI said yes. xAI said yes. Anthropic said absolutely not.
Karpathy's microgpt is a complete GPT in 200 lines of pure Python. No libraries, no abstractions — the entire architecture in one file.