@chl260: your agent isn't the bottleneck. your environment is. frozen benchmarks stop teaching the moment the agent outgrows the…
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The post argues that frozen benchmarks are inadequate for AI agent development, proposing a shift from improving agents to harnessing the environment instead.
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your agent isn’t the bottleneck. your environment is.
frozen benchmarks stop teaching the moment the agent outgrows them. the field’s answer has been “train a better agent.”
ours: put a harness on the world instead. https://t.co/a6RmCgh8Wo
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