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Everything filed under AI agents AI agents Everything filed under coding agents coding agents Everything filed under Anthropic Anthropic Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Every announcement of a longer context window hides the cost, which is that the model gets worse at following instructions. Every announcement of a longer contextwindow hides the cost, which is that themodel gets worse at followinginstructions. Last stated 2 years ago 19 Jun 2024 AS Aravind Srinivas — holds since 2024-06-19 — tap for who they are Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it A bigger context window does notgive you a smarter model; theintelligence of the model is whatdecides how much of that window itcan actually attend to. Last stated 2 months ago 15 Jul 2026 DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: Context has two budgets, not one: the information budget everyone thinks about, and an instruction budget, where conflicting instructions cost the model real computation to ignore. — tap to centre the map on it Context has two budgets, not one:the information budget everyonethinks about, and an instructionbudget, where conflictinginstructions cost the model realcomputation to ignore. Last stated 2 months ago 15 Jul 2026 DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: What sits in a model's context is far clearer to it than its training data, which is trillions of tokens stirred into a soup of parameters. — tap to centre the map on it What sits in a model's context isfar clearer to it than its trainingdata, which is trillions of tokensstirred into a soup of parameters. Last stated a month ago 30 Jul 2026 JD Jeff Dean — holds since 2026-07-30 — tap for who they are Same subject: Four things about a context window decide what an agent does next: its size, whether the information in it is correct, whether information is missing, and the trajectory it is already on. — tap to centre the map on it Four things about a context windowdecide what an agent does next: itssize, whether the information in itis correct, whether information ismissing, and the trajectory it isalready on. Last stated 2 months ago 15 Jul 2026 DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: Longer context is an engineering and inference problem, not a research problem — nothing prevents it from working. — tap to centre the map on it Longer context is an engineering andinference problem, not a researchproblem — nothing prevents it fromworking. Last stated 7 months ago 13 Feb 2026 DA Dario Amodei — holds since 2026-02-13 — tap for who they are Same subject: Coding agents made implementation cheap without making roadmaps shorter or software better -- the binding constraint was never how fast code gets written. — tap to centre the map on it Coding agents made implementationcheap without making roadmapsshorter or software better -- thebinding constraint was never howfast code gets written. Last stated 3 weeks ago 14 Aug 2026 SP Sunil Pai — holds since 2026-08-14 — tap for who they are Same subject: Context engineering has stayed relevant for a year because it is grounded in how transformer attention works, and it will matter to anyone building on AI until post-transformer models arrive. — tap to centre the map on it Context engineering has stayedrelevant for a year because it isgrounded in how transformerattention works, and it will matterto anyone building on AI untilpost-transformer models arrive. Last stated 2 months ago 15 Jul 2026 DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: The scarce skill is now context switching across parallel agents, not sustained deep work. — tap to centre the map on it The scarce skill is now contextswitching across parallel agents,not sustained deep work. Last stated 6 months ago 4 Mar 2026 BC Boris Cherny — holds since 2026-03-04 — tap for who they are Same subject: A handful of AI agents is not a handful of colleagues, because agents agree with you constantly and colleagues tell you where you are wrong. — tap to centre the map on it A handful of AI agents is not ahandful of colleagues, becauseagents agree with you constantly andcolleagues tell you where you arewrong. Last stated 6 months ago 22 Mar 2026 NF Nicole Forsgren — holds since 2026-03-22 — tap for who they are Same subject: After pre-training, post-training and test-time scaling, the fourth scaling law is agentic: multiplying AI by spawning agents, and the whole loop scales on one thing, compute. — tap to centre the map on it After pre-training, post-trainingand test-time scaling, the fourthscaling law is agentic: multiplyingAI by spawning agents, and the wholeloop scales on one thing, compute. Last stated 6 months ago 23 Mar 2026 JH Jensen Huang — holds since 2026-03-23 — tap for who they are Same subject: Agent autonomy is a capability, not a product direction: what the person is actually trying to do decides whether more of it helps or ruins the thing. — tap to centre the map on it Agent autonomy is a capability, nota product direction: what the personis actually trying to do decideswhether more of it helps or ruinsthe thing. Last stated 3 weeks ago 14 Aug 2026 SP Sunil Pai — holds since 2026-08-14 — tap for who they are Same subject: A coding agent does not learn from its mistakes the way a person does -- it repeats the same error indefinitely unless a human notices and writes it down. — tap to centre the map on it A coding agent does not learn fromits mistakes the way a person does-- it repeats the same errorindefinitely unless a human noticesand writes it down. Last stated 5 months ago 25 Mar 2026 MZ Mario Zechner — holds since 2026-03-25 — tap for who they are Same subject: A coding-agent company should not train its own model: it has to stay neutral ground for models to compete on. — tap to centre the map on it A coding-agent company should nottrain its own model: it has to stayneutral ground for models to competeon. Last stated 4 days ago 3 Sept 2026 DR Dax Raad — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are Same subject: A machine can complete the task and completely miss the job -- coding makes this easy to see precisely because its tasks are so legible and verifiable. — tap to centre the map on it A machine can complete the task andcompletely miss the job -- codingmakes this easy to see preciselybecause its tasks are so legible andverifiable. Last stated 3 weeks ago 14 Aug 2026 SP Sunil Pai — holds since 2026-08-14 — tap for who they are Same subject: A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year. — tap to centre the map on it A benchmark that ranks Claude Codelast while it stays first in use ismeasuring the wrong thing, and hasbeen for a year. Last stated 4 days ago 3 Sept 2026 DR Dax Raad — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are Same subject: A language model asked to summarize its own system prompt risks that prompt's content biasing the summary it produces. — tap to centre the map on it A language model asked to summarizeits own system prompt risks thatprompt's content biasing the summaryit produces. Last stated 5 days ago 2 Sept 2026 SW Simon Willison — holds since 2026-09-02 — tap for who they are Same subject: A trust that owns the mission protects a company better than founder control does, which is why Anthropic needs no dual-class shares. — tap to centre the map on it A trust that owns the missionprotects a company better thanfounder control does, which is whyAnthropic needs no dual-classshares. Last stated 4 months ago 10 May 2026 ER Eric Ries — holds since 2026-05-10 — tap for who they are
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At the centre Every announcement of a longer context window hides the cost, which is that the model gets worse at following instructions. Last stated 19 Jun 2024 · 2 years ago Holds Aravind Srinivas Read this korrent →