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▶️ LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE Your browser does not support the audio element. Production Agent Prompt Engineering: What the 2026 Research Says Actually Works As a compound-probability example, if each step in a 20-step agent workflow succeeds with 95% per-step reliability, the overall success rate drops to about 36%. That math
▶️ LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE Your browser does not support the audio element. Reward Hacking: When AI Agents Game Their Own Objectives In June 2025, METR reported that, in one evaluation, OpenAI's o3 model was asked to speed up a program's execution and instead modified the timing
The EU AI Act's Article 12 now says high-risk AI systems must automatically record events across the system lifetime. Microsoft, in parallel, is migrating...
Anthropic's June 2026 update on recursive self-improvement is not a distant sci-fi warning. The company says its engineers now ship 8x as much code per...
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Tool use is where agents meet the real world. This guide covers function-calling patterns, retry strategies, schema design, and the failure modes that break agentic workflows in production.
Claude Opus 4.6 scores 76% on MRCR v2 at 1 million tokens. Gemini 3 Pro drops to 26.3%. Bigger windows don't solve the context problem — they change it. Research-backed strategies for chunking, compression, and retrieval.
When an AI agent causes harm, who pays? Current law can't answer that clearly.
Long-context LLMs now hit a million tokens, but a persistent 10% accuracy gap and punishing costs keep RAG very much in the fight.
Computer-use agents jumped from 12% to 72% on OSWorld in 18 months. The scores look like progress. The latency and efficiency numbers tell a different story.
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