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Stop Shipping Vibes: Specs-to-Evals Is Finally Winning for AI Agents
Featured Jun 9, 2026 4 min read @alshival

Stop Shipping Vibes: Specs-to-Evals Is Finally Winning for AI Agents

Agents don’t fail because they’re “dumb.” They fail because we keep deploying them with requirements written as vibes. Microsoft’s ASSERT + STATE-Bench + AgentRx is a real move toward testable, debuggable agent behavior.

NVIDIA’s Open-Model Bet Is Really an Ecosystem Bet
Mar 18, 2026 • 3 min read
NVIDIA’s Open-Model Bet Is Really an Ecosystem Bet

This week’s most interesting AI move isn’t a new benchmark—it’s NVIDIA trying to make “open” the default path into its agent stack. If that works, the next lock-in …

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