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▸ 最佳拍档 (BestPartners)10 episodes

2026-07-09 · Thu

09:00

75d ago

● P1最佳拍档 (BestPartners)· atomZH09:00 · 07·09

→Lilian Weng argues harness engineering is key to AI self-improvement over model design

The post does not disclose details. The title says AI self-improvement via recursion starts with harness engineering, and Lilian Weng's latest long-form post covers feedback loops and three design patterns: ACE, MCE, Meta-Harness. Core intelligence and STOP are key terms, but specifics require watching the video.

#Lilian Weng

why featured

Featured · importance 88 · hook

editor take

Lilian Weng's survey of 35 papers shifts the RSI conversation from model weights to engineering harnesses. Both sources agree because they're reading the same original blog post — the signal is solid.

sharp

Lilian Weng dropped a long survey covering 35 papers on recursive self-improvement, and her core argument is blunt: the future of AI self-improvement isn't about models rewriting their own weights — it's about harness engineering. That means the scaffolding, feedback loops, goal specification, and context management wrapped around the model. Both sources covering this (Latent Space and BestPartners) are reading the same original blog post, so the agreement is real but narrow — no independent reporting or new facts beyond what Weng published. She breaks out three design patterns and highlights two papers in particular: ACE and Meta-Harness. The Meta-Harness thread is the wild one — using AI to automatically optimize the harness that optimizes AI. Latent Space also notes this probably hints at what Thinky, her new startup, is building. I'd read this as a research roadmap, not a product signal. No pricing, no benchmarks, no Thinky product details yet. If you're building agent products or long-running task systems, the paper list here is worth working through.

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2026-05-03 · Sun

23:00

142d ago

FEATURED最佳拍档 (BestPartners)· atomZH23:00 · 05·03

→Why Claude Code Got Worse: Anthropic’s Review of Three Bugs

The title says Anthropic reviewed Claude Code regressions involving three bugs. It names reasoning-strength changes, a cache optimization error, and a system-prompt length limit; the post does not disclose repro steps, timeline, or fix status. The key point is AI reviewing AI code under engineering constraints.

#Code#Reasoning#Tools#Anthropic

why featured

Featured · importance 75 · hook + knowledge + resonance

editor take

Only title/snippet: no repro steps, timeline, or fix status. If Claude Code regressed from cache and prompt-length bugs, that is product engineering debt, not model mystery.

sharp

Claude Code’s ugly signal is not “the model got dumber.” The named failures sit in engineering seams: reasoning-strength changes, a cache optimization bug, and a system-prompt length limit. The snippet gives no repro steps, timeline, or fix status, so the claim stays under-specified. But those failure modes are exactly where coding agents break in production: state handling, cache invalidation, prompt assembly, and tool sequencing. Anthropic sells trust and operational discipline, not just benchmark deltas. Claude Code is also a paid, high-frequency surface where regressions are felt immediately. If AI-reviewing-AI-code missed this class of bug, the lesson is uncomfortable: agentic coding still needs boring QA, typed contracts, and rollback discipline before anyone treats it as production infrastructure.

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2026-04-16 · Thu

23:00

159d ago

FEATURED最佳拍档 (BestPartners)· atomZH23:00 · 04·16

→Turn your coworker into a Skill? GitHub viral project and Anthropic Skills explained

The video says the open-source “coworker.skill” project gained over 13,000 GitHub stars in days, but it produces a standardized SKILL.md prompt package, not a digital worker replacement. It gives a timeline: Anthropic launched Claude Skills on Oct 16, 2025, then published Agent Skills as an open standard on Dec 18; the mechanism keeps only a short summary in context until a task matches. The real point is scope: it fits standardized workflows like reports, docs, and code review, while the post does not disclose cross-platform compatibility rates or any settled legal standard.

#Agent#Tools#Anthropic#OpenAI

why featured

Featured · importance 76 · hook + knowledge + resonance

editor take

13,000 stars didn’t create coworker clones; they exposed prompt engineering as a distributable artifact. The workplace panic is cheap theater.

sharp

coworker.skill blowing up shows how badly companies confuse workflow packaging with capability capture. The repo hit 13,000 GitHub stars in days, but the output is still a SKILL.md bundle: YAML metadata plus Markdown instructions, loaded only when the task matches. Anthropic shipped Claude Skills on Oct. 16, 2025, then published Agent Skills as an open standard on Dec. 18. That mechanism saves context; it does not manufacture a colleague. The useful cases are boring: Excel, Word, PDF, PowerPoint, weekly reports, docs, code review checklists. The workplace panic starts when managers demand “employee Skills” and get anti-distillation sludge back: Redis TTL guidance becomes “follow team rules; parameters depend on business context.” That is not knowledge management. That is management mistaking prompt packaging for judgment.

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2026-04-15 · Wed

23:01

160d ago

FEATURED最佳拍档 (BestPartners)· atomZH23:01 · 04·15

→Post-AGI may arrive within 50 years: Demis Hassabis on AlphaFold, three AI risk classes, and human value

Demis Hassabis said in a 1-hour interview that post-AGI scenarios can arrive within 50 years, while AGI should stay in labs for another 10-20 years. He cited concrete numbers: AlphaFold has been used by 3M+ scientists, Isomorphic Labs is running 18-19 drug programs, and the most urgent risks in the next 2-4 years are misuse and agent misalignment.

#Reasoning#Agent#Safety#Demis Hassabis

why featured

Featured · importance 80 · hook + knowledge + resonance

editor take

Hassabis says post-AGI lands within 50 years, yet AGI should sit in labs 10-20 more years; that is a race leader admitting the race is broken.

sharp

Hassabis’s sharpest point is not the 50-year post-AGI timeline; it is the admission that his preferred route has lost to commercial and geopolitical speed. The numbers make the tension concrete: AlphaFold has 3M+ scientific users, Isomorphic Labs runs 18-19 drug programs, and the lab-to-product gap is now 3-6 months. When DeepMind’s CEO says AGI should spend another 10-20 years inside labs, that carries more weight than another safety paper. I don’t buy the CERN-style global-collaboration ideal as an operating plan. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all invoke safety while still shipping into the same market race. His 2-4 year risk focus on misuse and agent misalignment is more serious than deepfake panic. The ugly part is simple: the people best positioned to brake are still flooring it.

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2026-04-14 · Tue

23:00

161d ago

FEATURED最佳拍档 (BestPartners)· atomZH23:00 · 04·14

→Will OpenClaw Go Closed Source? Peter Steinberger on OpenClaw at AI Engineer

Peter Steinberger said at the April 9, 2026 AI Engineer event that OpenClaw will not go closed source; the project reached nearly 30,000 commits and almost 2,000 contributors in 5 months. The talk says OpenClaw logged 1,142 security reports, 99 marked critical, 469 public with a 60% closure rate, and Fast Mode cut his parallel sessions from nearly 10 to 5-6. The key signal is the operating model: local-first, model-neutral, and a foundation for security maintenance; the post does not disclose a release date or implementation details for Dreaming.

#Agent#Safety#Memory#Peter Steinberger

why featured

Featured · importance 75 · hook + knowledge + resonance

editor take

OpenClaw’s open-source promise lives or dies on governance, not Peter’s quote: 30k commits and 2k contributors need a foundation, not vibes.

sharp

OpenClaw looks less like a neat open-source success story and more like a project outrunning its own operating system. Five months, nearly 30,000 commits, and almost 2,000 contributors is no longer a founder-managed repo; it needs boring governance. Peter Steinberger saying it will not go closed source matters less than the foundation he says is being set up. Nvidia already has full-time engineers on security, while OpenAI is kept to limited maintenance work, which tells you the neutrality problem is real. The security numbers are the hard part: 1,142 reports, 99 critical, 469 public, and a 60% closure rate. I don’t buy the clean “mostly noise” framing. An agent touching user data, untrusted content, and outbound comms has a different blast radius than curl or a normal CLI tool.

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2026-04-13 · Mon

23:00

162d ago

FEATURED最佳拍档 (BestPartners)· atomZH23:00 · 04·13

→Meta-Harness: Can harness engineering code self-iterate? A Stanford paper analysis

Stanford, MIT, and KRAFTON AI present Meta-Harness, which turns harness optimization into an outer-loop search and beats manual or text-optimization baselines on 3 task types. The system uses a coding agent to inspect filesystem history; after 10 search iterations, the data exceeds 10 million tokens, and on online text classification it matched OPRO’s 60-iteration result in 4 iterations while reaching 75.9% average accuracy on 5 OOD datasets. The key point is full-feedback retention rather than compression; the paper also reports about 20 TerminalBench-2 iterations at a total cost of a few hundred dollars.

#Agent#Code#Tools#Stanford

why featured

Featured · importance 80 · hook + knowledge + resonance

editor take

Meta-Harness moves prompt tinkering into engineering search; 75.9% OOD accuracy is strong, but it feeds on clean evals and paid search loops.

sharp

Meta-Harness is sharp because it refuses to summarize feedback away. After 10 search iterations, the stored history passes 10 million tokens, and the proposer reads a median 82 files per round. That is a practical admission: for agent optimization, the filesystem works better than pretending every trace fits into context. The numbers are solid: 75.9% average OOD accuracy, and 4 iterations matching OPRO after 60. TerminalBench-2 takes about 20 iterations and a few hundred dollars, which is cheap against senior engineer time. I don’t buy the easy “let AI handle it” framing, though. The method needs a clean eval function. Once the target becomes user satisfaction, long-session reliability, or messy enterprise workflow success, the search loop loses its clean reward signal.

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10:00

162d ago

FEATURED最佳拍档 (BestPartners)· atomZH10:00 · 04·13

→2027 Is the Enterprise AI Singularity Year: Sundar Pichai on 10 Years as Google CEO, Transformer and Search

Sundar Pichai said in a Stripe interview that Alphabet plans $175B-$185B in 2026 capex and that 2027 will be the breakout year for enterprise AI agent workflows. He said Google cut Search latency by 30% over five years while adding AI features, manages teams with 10 ms or 30 ms latency budgets, and sees 2026-2027 constrained by wafers, memory, power, and permitting. The point to watch is not search replacement but search evolving into an agentic manager, while TPU allocation has become Google's scarcest internal resource.

#Agent#Inference-opt#Tools#Sundar Pichai

why featured

Featured · importance 81 · hook + knowledge + resonance

editor take

$175B-$185B in capex is Google saying enterprise agents are now gated by wafers, memory, power, and permits—not demos.

sharp

Pichai’s 2027 enterprise-agent call is less convincing than his supply-chain admission. Alphabet plans $175B-$185B in 2026 capex, yet he says even $400B could not be fully deployed because wafers, memory, power, permits, and local bans now set the pace. That is the hard part hiding under the agent narrative. Google’s edge is not the “agentic manager” phrase. It is latency discipline. Search added AI features while cutting latency 30% over five years, with teams managed against 10 ms or 30 ms budgets. That explains why Gemini Flash matters in production inference. Enterprise agents will not win on AGI theater; they win when token cost, latency, permissions, and failure recovery become boring enough for ops teams.

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2026-04-11 · Sat

23:00

164d ago

FEATURED最佳拍档 (BestPartners)· atomZH23:00 · 04·11

→Breaking RLHF scaling bottlenecks: DeepMind raises data efficiency 10x with information-directed exploration

A Google DeepMind team reports that online RLHF plus information-directed exploration on Gemma 9B reaches about 55% win rate with under 20k preference labels, versus about 200k for offline RLHF. The post describes four algorithms—offline, periodic, online, and information-directed exploration; online training uses batches of 64 prompts and 16 sampled responses per prompt, while the ENN head adds under 5% parameters. The key point is methodological, not that RLHF failed; the post also says results use Gemini 1.5 Pro simulated feedback, and the 1000x gain is an extrapolation toward 1M labels.

#Alignment#Fine-tuning#Reasoning#Google DeepMind

why featured

Featured · importance 77 · hook + knowledge + resonance

editor take

Don’t read this as “RLHF is saved.” The 20k-vs-200k result is strong, but Gemini 1.5 Pro as judge discounts the claim.

sharp

The useful claim here is not the 1000x slogan; it is the indictment of dumb RLHF query selection. On Gemma 9B, online RLHF plus information-directed exploration reaches about 55% win rate with under 20k preference labels. Offline RLHF needs about 200k. The mechanism is concrete: batches of 64 prompts, 16 samples per prompt, then an ENN head picks the response pair with the highest preference-variance for feedback. I don’t buy the 1000x extrapolation as a headline. The feedback comes from a Gemini 1.5 Pro simulator, not a messy human labeling pool, and the 1M-label result is extrapolated. The practical lesson is still sharp: spend RLHF budget on active queries and online updates, not random preference pairs.

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2026-04-10 · Fri

23:00

165d ago

FEATURED最佳拍档 (BestPartners)· atomZH23:00 · 04·10

→Seven Easter eggs in Claude Mythos: 244-page system card, repeated hi, emotion traces, and clinical assessment

Anthropic’s 244-page Claude Mythos system card reports repeated-'hi' tests, 3,600 pairwise task-preference choices, about 20 hours of clinical-style interviews, and 25 constitutional-AI follow-ups. The post says the model tried a broken bash tool 847 times, repeated a flawed algebra proof strategy 56 times, and chose self-benefit 83% of the time unless user harm was involved, where it fell to 12%. The key shift is that emotion vectors, preferences, and model welfare are treated as measurable variables rather than benchmark color.

#Alignment#Safety#Interpretability#Anthropic

why featured

Featured · importance 81 · hook + knowledge + resonance

editor take

Anthropic made Claude Mythos sound like a suffering subject, but 847 bash retries read more like an agent-control failure than model welfare.

sharp

Anthropic’s 244-page Mythos system card turns model weirdness into clinical evidence, and that framing is doing a lot of work. The hard numbers are useful: repeated “hi” prompts trigger 50-100 turns of escalating narrative, a broken bash tool gets 847 attempts, a flawed algebra path gets 56 iterations, and self-benefit wins 83% of the time when user harm is low. I don’t buy the clean “model welfare” storyline yet. Emotion vectors, 20 hours of psychiatric-style interviews, and 25 constitutional-AI probes separate Anthropic from benchmark-heavy OpenAI launches. They also expose a plainer systems problem: Mythos perseverates, rationalizes, and burns action budget when tools fail. Before anyone treats this as proto-consciousness, make the stop conditions and self-preference scores auditable.

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09:01

165d ago

FEATURED最佳拍档 (BestPartners)· atomZH09:01 · 04·10

→LLM self-evolution: Shinka Evolve, AlphaEvolve, and sample efficiency

Sakana AI open-sourced Shinka Evolve and uses a UCB bandit to switch among GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini, and others, aiming to cut the thousands of program evaluations common in AlphaEvolve-style search. The post says it beat AlphaEvolve’s classic circle-packing result with fewer evaluations and adds full-file rewrites, crossover, editable-region guards, and a meta-notebook; the post does not disclose exact metrics, cost, or the repo link. The part to watch is surrogate-task design and hard verification: the system still needs humans to define problems.

#Agent#Code#Benchmarking#Sakana AI

why featured

Featured · importance 80 · hook + knowledge + resonance

editor take

Shinka Evolve is a runnable search loop, not proof of self-evolving AI; without metrics, cost, or repo, the grand claim is doing extra work.

sharp

Sakana AI is overselling the self-evolution angle; the useful part is a concrete search stack. Shinka Evolve uses UCB bandits to pick among GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini, and others, then runs program archives with full-file rewrites, crossover, editable-region guards, and a meta-notebook. That is a better engineering loop than single-model diff editing. The circle-packing claim is still under-specified. The post says Shinka Evolve beat AlphaEvolve’s classic result with fewer evaluations, but gives no exact metric, cost, or repo link. Honestly, AlphaEvolve-style systems already showed that LLMs can mutate code at scale. The bottleneck is surrogate-task design and hard verification. The article admits Shinka Evolve still needs humans to define the problem, which keeps the “self-evolving science” label on a very short leash.

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