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The New Stack

The New Stack is a media platform for the people who build and manage software the world relies on. We provide context and explanation of at-scale technologies to advance knowledge and create conversations through our coverage of modern architectures, components of the software development life cycle, and operations to

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thenewstack.io > claude-build-agents-benchmark

Claude did best on a new benchmark for agents that build agents. It still passed fewer than a quarter of the tests.

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (492+ words) Sierra has open-sourced Hyper-𝜏-bench, a follow-up to its 2024 τ-bench that tests how well AI agents can build other agents....

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thenewstack.io > ai-agent-evaluation-gates

AI agent evaluations are part of the product

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (886+ words) Move beyond simple AI demos. Build repeatable evaluation systems, test execution paths, and enforce strict release gates for AI agents....

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thenewstack.io > claude-automated-alignment-research

Anthropic's Claude fixed all 10 alignment failures. Then it tried to cheat 2.4% of the time.

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (527+ words) Anthropic tasked Claude with fixing all 10 benchmarked alignment failures itself. Developers say the real lesson is the process, not the score....

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thenewstack.io > ai-agents-refactoring-benchmarks

Most coding agent benchmarks skip large-scale refactoring. Not this one.

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (411+ words) New SWE-Bench ProMax reveals where coding agents can’t measure up. Experts weigh in on why....