Agentic AI and The Mythical Agent-Month

kept by eddie jan 21

A critique argues that AI agents don't bypass Brooks' Law, as coordination overhead and integration complexity still limit parallel agent scaling.

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming
Researchers demonstrate that combining spherical geometry with CUDA‑accelerated computation can pinpoint the latitude and longitude of an arbitrary island from minimal data.
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Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for world makers
Microsoft announces Surface Laptop Ultra with NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, up to 128GB unified memory, and 1 petaflop AI compute for creators and developers.
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It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as u
AI coding agents have transformed from largely ineffective before December to reliably executing complex multi-step tasks autonomously within 30 minutes.
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Why Open-Source Models Haven't Killed the Big Dogs
Open-source models remain costlier to serve reliably due to infrastructure, utilization, and operational overhead, making hosted APIs from OpenAI and Anthropic more economical despite free model weights.
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