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The Optimal Choice of Hypothesis Is the Weakest, Not the Shortest(arxiv.org)
3 points by tosh 3mo ago|0 comments
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White House AI Guidelines Exempt U.S. Open Models from Government Review(wsj.com)
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by tosh 3mo ago
I'm glad MCP is getting simpler a few months ago I tried to implement an MCP server from scratch in python (instead of using the existing reference implementation) and I could not get it to work reliably across clients
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by tosh 3mo ago
a few examples: 1) system prompt in pi is quite small (way smaller than the one from OpenCode) 2) when your agents.md file changes pi does not re-spam it (preserves cache, good trade-off!) 3) only 4 tools, every tool comes with a descriptio
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by tosh 3mo ago
I use it for smaller changes (no compaction yet) If I have agents.md or other context I want it to read I mention it at the beginning of the session re MCP: I am not using an MCP with smol but there are ways to convert MCPs into CLI tools o
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by tosh 3mo ago
i also found re context window: less is more at least with GPT 5.6 Sol fwiw https://smolenv.com/t/nested-template-includes-60636/ sh is all you need
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Finding 247 solar plant candidates in Brandenburg(twitter.com)
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Speed Above All Else(twitter.com)
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Oxide RFD 284: Loading the Host Operating System(rfd.shared.oxide.computer)
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Agentic Minimalism: The Human Control Loop(leverageloops.substack.com)
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Artificial Analysis Endpoint Accuracy Index(twitter.com)
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by tosh 3mo ago
in this case there was a hidden grader that checked if the implementation was correct (because that was the easiest thing to check), all 3 agents cleared this hurdle in all 9 runs I agree, next it makes sense to try more open ended tasks +
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by tosh 3mo ago
apologies, I should have clarified the 'better' claim - same task result (passed) - finished faster - fewer tokens, less cost - fewer requests for inference - fewer tool calls - less peak RAM
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by tosh 3mo ago
maybe a bit counter-intuitive but: I found that removing - system prompt - skills - agents.md - mcps + reducing tools to just 1 (sh) gives better results than having 'more' of them (e.g. look at these traces to see mo
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by tosh 3mo ago
I agree in principle but in practice this is not easy even with a robust, well thought through setup every model behaves in its own way, some adhere more to a system prompt, another model has more recent cut-off time and knows about new par
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by tosh 3mo ago
Pi is pretty good actually (it has way less context spam, fewer tools and smaller system prompt than the usual suspects) databricks also looked at this: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/
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by tosh 3mo ago
I'm not saying system prompts, agents.md, tools, skills don't have their place actually the opposite: they matter a lot because they do steer the agent with great power comes great responsibility
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by tosh 3mo ago
I know it sounds a bit counter-intuitive but try a fresh coding session without skills, agents.md, system prompt and additional tools I think you will be positively surprised how good current models like GPT 5.6 Sol are when they are not ov
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The Agent Development Lifecycle Has Arrived on Cloudflare(blog.cloudflare.com)
3 points by tosh 3mo ago|0 comments
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Pi, Minimal and Performant(earendil.com)
3 points by tosh 3mo ago|1 comments
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by tosh 3mo ago
one form of very effective self-improvement that coding agents do all the time: install or build stuff that they can then use it changes the environment instead of the agent/harness but in a sense how separate is the agent from its env
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What nobody tells you about writing agent skills(twitter.com)
1 points by tosh 3mo ago|0 comments
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What I Want to Tell You About Orbs(ampcode.com)
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Harness engineering for self-improvement(lilianweng.github.io)
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by tosh 3mo ago
great question, not yet I think it is worth adding support for it though
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Hermes Agent v0.20.0(github.com)
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meat(github.com)
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bstr: A string type for Rust that is not required to be valid UTF-8(github.com)
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by tosh 3mo ago
Interesting, that is not my experience (but I'm mainly using them for reading and writing code right now) but I don't doubt that you're seeing this behaviour, ty for sharing!
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by tosh 3mo ago
nb: current models (e.g. GPT 5.6 Sol) are very good at long horizon tasks they no longer need crutches or rube goldberg machines to keep them going minimal agent harness is just a loop that loops until no more tool calls are coming GPT 5.6

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