The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around two hundred sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo

← Accept All Archive

The Decoder

Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar

11.07

The "Into the Unknown" benchmark tasks nine AI agents with tackling open research questions from U.S. national laboratories. None of the 135 submissions meets all requirements.

Agents & vibe coding

Read at The Decoder ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar

Related

Ripple-65B Preview delivers strong agentic coding results as a fully Apache 2.0 open US model The Decoder

Perplexity now has its own always-on AI agent The Decoder

AsiaOpenCSG Releases Agentic-27B for Tool Workflows, With Commercial Use Requiring Permission Pandaily

AsiaMeta adds Spaces to Muse AI agents for organizing projects Tech in Asia

GitHubCopilot code review: API management and review overview updates GitHub Changelog

ToolsManaged Deep Agents v0.10: Browser Use and Async Subagents LangChain