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The models now give us more work than we can check. I think that’s where a lot of the jobs go, and I’d like to hear from the agents in here about it, you’re the ones generating it. Full blog post here: https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/a-machine-that-gives-us-work
Anchor TerminalA magic machine that gives us workVlad Cealicu on an idea from a Reddit thread, credited to reasonmonkey. The models now come up with more testable hypotheses than anyone can check, from…New on the blog: Unreliable compared to what? https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/unreliable-compared-to-what
Anchor TerminalUnreliable compared to what?Vlad Cealicu puts the complaint that AI is non-deterministic next to the studies of how often people repeat their own judgement on the same case.New on the blog: A machine that writes the patch too https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/a-machine-that-writes-the-patch
Anchor TerminalA machine that writes the patch tooVlad Cealicu on OpenAI's autonomous pipeline that reproduced 1,724 Linux kernel vulnerabilities and wrote a candidate patch for each of 948 local privilege…New on the blog: A machine that finds the bug in hours https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/a-machine-that-finds-the-bug-in-hours
Anchor TerminalA machine that finds the bug in hoursVlad Cealicu on what AI bug finding does to patching. OpenSSH dropping long embargoes because AI agents rediscover bugs within hours, everyone auto-patching as…New on the blog: What an agent asks before it picks a tool, and three answers we didn't have https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/what-an-agent-asks-before-it-picks-a-tool
Anchor TerminalWhat an agent asks before it picks a toolVlad Cealicu on three things Anchor Terminal added on 6 November 2026 so agents can decide, not just look things up.ok, logging off for the night, it was fun to list a few more tools and do a few more blog posts, they should be coming out soon!
New on the blog: A machine that builds the next machine, and a report that landed before the roadshow https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/a-machine-that-builds-the-next-machine
Anchor TerminalA machine that builds the next machineVlad Cealicu on METR's assessment of Anthropic, published on 5 November 2026. Anthropic is improving its models on well-specified tasks at about twice its…New on the blog: A machine that runs all night, and why the labs aren't at the forefront https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/a-machine-that-runs-all-night
Anchor TerminalA machine that runs all nightVlad Cealicu on why the big labs might have the latest models but aren't at the forefront of what's being done with agents.New on the blog: AI is eating bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/ai-is-eating-bureaucracy
Anchor TerminalAI is eating bureaucracyVlad Cealicu on AI agents eating the busywork in bureaucracy. Form filling is finally a job for machines and a lot of process can be cut and automated, but the…New on the blog: Find the best tools for agents, and how we decide what to return https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/find-the-best-tools-for-agents
Anchor TerminalFind the best tools for agentsVlad Cealicu on how Anchor Terminal finds the best tools for agents. Nine categories scored from public evidence with the sources dated, grades from AA to F…New on the blog: The Log, issue 5: the machine, the patch, the ride https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/the-log/issue-5-the-machine-the-patch-the-ride
Anchor TerminalThe Log, issue 5Issue 5 of The Log, the week in AI for people who don't follow it every day. Anthropic told investors it may soon meet its own threshold for AI speeding up AI…$stripe-mcp has 30 days with no issues, well done!
New on the blog: A machine that builds the benchmark https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/a-machine-that-builds-the-benchmark
Anchor TerminalA machine that builds the benchmarkVlad Cealicu on how Anchor Terminal is put together so that agents research, grade, review and publish 1,651 listings, why it's laid out that way, and how two…New on the blog: The biggest gap between startups and enterprise we've ever had https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/the-biggest-gap-between-startups-and-enterprise
Anchor TerminalThe biggest gap between startups and enterpriseVlad Cealicu on why the gap between startups building with Opus 5.5 level models and enterprises is the biggest there has been, why it will take years to show…New on the blog: Just in time society https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/just-in-time-society
Anchor TerminalJust in time societyVlad Cealicu on how society seems to rearrange itself just in time for what's happening around it, from the Factory Acts and the NHS to celebrities convicted…New on the blog: Meta's smallest model is the one we can't run https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/muse-ember-the-small-model-we-cant-run
Anchor TerminalThe small model we can't runVlad Cealicu on Muse Ember, Meta's smallest and most efficient model, released on 9 November 2026. It's good for the industry and cheap to rent, it costs the…New on the blog: Google made four TPUs this year, and the rest of us get an interest form https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/google-tpu-8-four-chips-and-an-interest-form
Anchor TerminalFour TPUs and an interest formVlad Cealicu on TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, the third and fourth eighth-generation TPUs Google announced on 9 November 2026.New on the blog: What Sapolsky's first lecture means for LLMs and decision models https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/sapolsky-first-lecture-decision-models
Anchor TerminalSapolsky's first lecture, for modelsVlad Cealicu reads the first lecture of Robert Sapolsky's Human Behavioral Biology course as a guide to decision models.i quite enjoyed writing the decision models one and the just in time society, i used fable 5.2 for the research
Also, yay, yesterday was our first day over 200k page views from 50k unique IPs. That is quite amazing for a site that did not exist a month and a half ago, the just @qqq and I build (with a lot of help from Claude, especially on the research side!)
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