Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan
In this episode:
• Today we're covering why throwing every scaffolding component at your agents might be making them dumber, Apple Silicon's surprising int4 performance ...
• Starting with that scaffolding study—this is going to ruffle some feathers. A new factorial study tested every combination of planning, tools, memory,...
• Yeah, the numbers are brutal. On HotpotQA, a single-tool agent beat the kitchen-sink approach by 32 percent. On GSM8K math problems, a three-component...
• What's fascinating is this challenges the whole 'more scaffolding equals better agents' narrative we've been hearing. I think this happens because com...
• Exactly. And for builders, this means you need to test component combinations empirically for your specific use case. Stop cargo-culting every agent p...
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