In the News: August 29, 2026
A controlled test separates the coding-agent harness from the model and finds the harness drives double-digit swings in task completion.
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A controlled test isolates the harness from the model, and the harness wins
Lewis built a coding-agent harness called Yuj and ran it two ways against the same tasks and the same frozen model weights: a control that feeds the model the full chronological transcript, and a treatment that trims older tool results as…
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A validator that never talks to the implementer closes most of a benchmark's parity gap
Factory.ai split the job into two roles: an implementer that writes the code, and a validator that builds a hidden test instrument before implementation starts and shares only its findings, never the instrument itself, across a wall between…
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