https://sparsenotes.com/tags/agents/ Recent content in agents on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/05/co-scientist-deepmind/ Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/05/co-scientist-deepmind/ DeepMind's six-minute overview of Co-Scientist — a multi-agent system that reads across the scientific literature, generates and ranks hypotheses, and gives working scientists an on-demand team of expert collaborators. https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/05/reliable-software-age-of-agents/ Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/05/reliable-software-age-of-agents/ Notes on Ron Minsky's talk on how Jane Street's long-standing bets — strong type systems, expect tests, library-level deterministic simulation, and serious code review — get more important, not less, in an agentic world, plus why the firm is suddenly interested in formal methods. https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/05/pi-to-pi-agent-orchestration/ Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/05/pi-to-pi-agent-orchestration/ Notes on IndyDevDan's walkthrough of peer-to-peer, bidirectional agent-to-agent communication built on the Pi coding agent harness — what changes when you flatten the orchestrator/worker hierarchy, when to use it, and the four-tool primitive that makes it work. https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/05/agent-development-lifecycle/ Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/05/agent-development-lifecycle/ Notes on Harrison Chase and Ankush Gola's Interrupt 2026 keynote — why agent development needs its own lifecycle, and the LangChain stack built around it (Deep Agents 0.6, LangSmith Sandboxes, Context Hub, SmithDB, LLM Gateway, LangSmith Engine).