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Insights and findings from our work on AI agent optimization, evaluation methodology, and the science of building reliable autonomous systems.

January 29, 2026

New!

Loss of First Principles Science with Agentic AI

There is an innate human desire for immediate causality. Software engineering is built on that feeling: write a test, find the bug, fix it, watch it pass. In the stochastic world of AI agents, that loop stops working the way it used to...

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January 14, 2026

Making GPT-4.1-mini as Good as GPT-5.2

We improved GPT-4.1-mini from 53% to 72% on τ²-bench using Lucidic's optimization algorithms, achieving performance comparable to GPT-5.2 at a fraction of the cost.

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