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Short summaries of agent optimization and AI engineering work — harnesses, prompt and context optimization, orchestration, memory, and agentic RL.

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Anthropic — How we enable self-service data analytics with Claude

engineering blog · source date 2026-06-03 · 0 comments · original

1. Problems / challenges / motivations - Self-service analytics fails in two directions: give an agent broad data access and metric definitions diverge across teams; lock access down and it cannot answer the business questions people actually have. - Three specific failure modes drive wrong answers: concept-to-entity ambiguity (mapping a question to the...

Building Customer Support AI Agents at 100M-User Scale (Nubank)

peer-reviewed paper · source date 2026-06-01 · 0 comments · original

1. Problems / challenges / motivations - Production agent quality is gated by the quality of the evaluation loop, and most teams' LLM judges are not calibrated against anything. - Hand-written judge prompts drift and disagree with human reviewers, which makes every downstream decision noisy. - Optimization research is overwhelmingly benchmark-based, with...

Building Self-Improving Tax Agents with Codex

engineering blog · source date 2026-05-27 · 0 comments · original

1. Problems / challenges / motivations - Vertical agents fail in domain-specific ways that generic benchmarks never surface. - Practitioner corrections are the highest-value signal a deployed agent produces and usually vanish into a support queue. - "Self-improving" typically means prompt tweaks, which does not fix root causes in the surrounding system. 2....

Evals Skills for Coding Agents

practitioner blog · source date 2026-03-03 · 0 comments · original

1. Problems / challenges / motivations - Eval methodology is well documented and badly practiced, because doing it properly is tedious. - Coding agents are already in the loop but are not taught how to build evaluation systems. - Error analysis — the highest-value step — is the one teams skip first. 2. Key ideas - Publishes `evals-skills`, a plug-in set of...