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Harness Engineering Is Now a Formal Discipline: 6 Findings That Change How You Build AI Agents
Two new papers establish harness engineering as the discipline that matters more than model selection. Here's what the research shows.
Higgsfield MCP vs. CLI for Claude Code Agents — Why the CLI Is Significantly Cheaper for Agentic Workflows
The Higgsfield MCP exposes every tool simultaneously — expensive for agents. The CLI is purpose-built for agentic use and significantly cheaper.
Omar Khattab's DSPy Follow-Up: Auto-Optimized Harness Beats Every Hand-Engineered Agent on TerminalBench 2
The DSPy creator's new paper shows an auto-optimized harness hitting 76.4% on TerminalBench 2 — outscoring every hand-built entry in the field.
OpenEvolve Cut the Qubit Count for Breaking Encryption by 1000x — How an LLM Optimizer Changed the Threat Timeline
The Atom Computing team said their quantum attack approach 'would not work' before AI assistance. OpenEvolve's LLM-based optimizer changed that by 1000x.
How to Start Your Post-Quantum Migration Before 2029: A Practical Checklist for Engineering Teams
NIST published three PQC standards in August 2024. Here's the practical migration checklist for engineering teams who need to act before the 2029 window closes.
Rewriting Agent Control Logic from Python to Natural Language Cut Runtime from 361 to 41 Minutes
No model swap, no architecture change — just rewriting control logic in natural language dropped runtime by 88% and lifted benchmark scores 17 points.
SubCube Claims a 12M Token Context Window at 5% of Claude Opus Cost: What the Numbers Actually Say
A lab with under 3,000 followers is claiming 12M tokens, 52x speed over flash attention, and near-Opus performance. Here's what to believe and what to wait on.
The Subtraction Principle: Why Removing Agent Tools Often Improves Performance
Research shows adding more tools to AI agents can hurt results. Learn the subtraction principle and how to audit your agent harness for better outputs.
Time Horizons Benchmark Numbers Are Understated by ~35% — Here's the Statistical Reason Why
Using a fixed-slope logistic fit — arguably more valid — pushes the published Time Horizons numbers up 35%. The co-author explains the methodology gap.
ClaudeMem vs. Dumping Full Context into Claude Code: The 10x Token Cost Difference Explained
Dumping all past context into Claude Code is expensive. ClaudeMem's three-layer vector search cuts retrieval token costs by ~10x.
Context Mode for Claude Code Compresses 315KB Sessions to 5KB — Here's How to Install and Use It
Context Mode achieves a 63x compression ratio on Claude Code sessions. Install steps, slash commands, and when to use it over alternatives.
One Founder Video Lifted Conversion Rate 33% — Here's the Claude Code Landing Page Stack Behind a $1.2M Business
A founder video moved CVR from 10% to 15%. Video testimonials cut Google Ads CPA 7x. Here's the full Claude Code stack that powers it.
John Preskill's Quantum Paper Used an Open-Source LLM Optimizer — and It Made Algorithms 1,000x Better
Caltech's John Preskill co-authored a paper where AI did the heavy lifting — improving early quantum algorithms by 1,000x via OpenEvolve.
Landing Page Speed Kills Conversions: 4 Data Points and How Claude Code Fixes Them in One Pass
A 2-second load time cuts conversions in half. Four speed-to-CVR data points and how to fix them by pasting your Lighthouse report into Claude.
Omar Khattab's DSPy Follow-Up: How Auto-Optimizing Your Harness Put a Tiny Model at #1 on TerminalBench
DSPy's creator showed a Haiku-powered harness beat larger models on TerminalBench. The secret: 10M tokens of automated harness optimization.
9 Video Testimonials Cut Google Ads Cost Per Conversion from $200 to $30 — The Landing Page Data Behind the Drop
Adding 9 video testimonials to a landing page dropped Google Ads CPC from $200 to $30. Page speed data shows 4-second load kills 80% of conversions vs.
Andrej Karpathy Said 'The Tokenizer Must Go' — DeepSeek's Vision Architecture Is Starting to Prove Him Right
Karpathy called pixels better inputs than text tokens after DeepSeek's OCR paper. Their new visual primitives model takes that idea further with 7,000x…
Claude Code Context Mode Compresses 315KB Sessions to 5KB — Here's How to Install It
Context Mode routes tool calls through a sandbox and shrinks a 56KB Playwright snapshot to 299 bytes. Two commands to install.
Claude Code /ultra review: 5 Things You Need to Know Before Running It ($5–$20 Per Run)
Ultra review spins parallel reviewer agents but costs $5–$20 per run and requires a Claude account, not just an API key. What to know first.
DeepSeek's 'Thinking with Visual Primitives': 5 Technical Breakthroughs in the Paper That Briefly Disappeared
DeepSeek's vision paper was published then pulled. Here are 5 key technical details — including inline bounding-box tokens and a 7,000x compression ratio.