When Agent Autonomy Produces Activity Instead of Work
An audit of Aria's autonomous loop found hundreds of goals, almost no progress, and a completion system that rewarded plausible output.
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Your Research Agent Needs a Consumer
Aria produced hundreds of useful research reports that nothing ever read. The fix was a small, idempotent consumer pipeline.
The Bigger Model Lost the Bakeoff
What two rounds of testing Aria's language and image models taught me about speed, benchmarks, and knowing when a score is wrong.
The Fourth-Agent Test
A quick way to tell whether your agent setup is ready to grow or still held together by one-off fixes.