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Most Agent Benchmarks Test the Wrong Thing
The SciAgentGym team ran 1,780 domain-specific scientific tools through current agent frameworks. Success rate on multi-step tool orchestration: 23%. Same...
When Multi-Agent Systems Break: The Coordination Tax Nobody Warns You About
LLM-powered multi-agent systems fail at coordination 40-60% of the time in production environments, according to new research from teams building...
Types of AI Agents: Reactive, Deliberative, Hybrid, and What Comes Next
SWE-bench accuracy went from 1.96% in 2023 to 69.1% in 2025. Understanding the types of AI agents behind this progress (reactive, deliberative, hybrid, and autonomous) is the difference between building tools that work and tools that impress.
Your AI Agent Can Reason, Plan, and Code. It Still Can't See the Web.
AI agents can reason, plan, and code. But they still can't reliably see the live web. The observation layer is the real bottleneck for production agents.
How to Test and Debug AI Agents
Agents that call APIs, write to databases, and send emails can't be tested like chatbots. A complete guide to failure taxonomies, debugging tools, and evaluation pipelines.
The MCP Guide: Model Context Protocol Is AI's USB Port
97 million SDK downloads. 10,000+ community servers. MCP is becoming AI's universal connector, but its security model hasn't caught up with its adoption.
What Is Agentic AI: The Complete 2026 Guide
Gartner client inquiries about agentic AI surged 1,445% in a single year. This guide covers what agentic AI actually is, where it works, where it fails, and what the hype misses.
The Protocol Wars Nobody's Winning
Ten competing agent protocols and counting. MCP won the tool layer but shipped without authentication. The alphabet soup is a coordination failure.
The Lobster in the Machine: Why OpenClaw is More Than Just Another AI Framework
The entire AI industry is converging on agents. Anthropic, Moonshot, and OpenAI are all racing to build more autonomous, capable systems. But while the...
Agents That Rewrite Themselves: The Self-Modifying Stack Is Here
Three independent papers demonstrate agents rewriting their own training code, generating their own knowledge structures, and refining their reasoning at test time. Self-improvement has moved from theory to working engineering.