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๐Ÿ“… ThursdAI - LIVE from AI Engineer Worlds Fair - OpenAI, DeepMind, EXO, Sakana & more friends Jul 2, 2026 ยท 2:53:57 Speakers at the AI Engineer World's Fair debated the shift from centralized cloud LLMs to local, open-source models. Key topics included model routing (Fugu), agentic workflows using W&B's Coreweave Ara, and ensuring data sovereignty through on-device inference.

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DeepSWE: A Contamination-Resistant Coding Benchmark โ€” James Shi, Datacurve Jul 26, 2026 ยท 17:34 DeepSWE is a contamination-resistant benchmark featuring 113 original software engineering tasks. It tests LLMs on long-horizon problems by focusing on observable behavior rather than PR-derived implementations, revealing critical gaps in model capabilities. How long can your skills be before your agent forgets what you told it? โ€” Laurie Voss, Arize AI Sep 9, 2026 ยท 22:26 The instruction ceiling for LLMs has jumped 10x in a year, moving from 200 rules to 5,000. This shifts the engineering challenge from prompt compression to output verification. Agentic Engineering Benchmarks: How I RANK Astra, Fable 5.1, and Open-Weights Sep 14, 2026 ยท 39:23 Model selection is a 3D problem (performance, cost, speed). To accurately benchmark agents, focus on five specialized tests: Terminal-Bench, APEX Agents, AutomationBench, AA-Omniscience, and DeepSWE.

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Stop Guessing Your vLLM Config: Benchmarking LLMs on Runpod - Chris Vela, Runpod Oct 28, 2026 ยท 16:29 Stop guessing your LLM configs! Learn how to use data-driven benchmarking with BenchPod, a vLLM dashboard, to optimize parameters like max batch tokens and ensure reliable, production-ready AI deployments. How AI Agents Work: Inside Agentic Inference Oct 14, 2026 ยท 7:21 Agentic workflows fundamentally change AI compute workloads, requiring new benchmarking methods that measure throughput per megawatt, interactivity, and end-to-end latency. From Zero to Leaderboard: Agent Evaluation โ€” Wolfram Ravenwolf, Weights & Biases Oct 11, 2026 ยท 52:30 Learn how to build reproducible AI agent evaluation pipelines using WolfBench. Discover why single scores are insufficient and how to track consistency, cost, and capability across six critical pipeline layers.

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