The Top AI Papers of the Week (October 12 - 18):
- Harness^2
- ReHarness
- LongHarness
- The Agentic Scientist
- Hybrid Reasoning Agents
- Quantum Circuit Discovery
- Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting
Read on for more:
خالد الدريني retweeted
Tim Sweeney wrote most of the first Unreal Engine with his own hands, and he says 70% of that work was just typing.
He already knew what he wanted. The slow part was turning it into code, one keystroke at a time, for years.
AI does that part now.
What's left is the 30% nobody can type for you: knowing what to build and why it's worth building at all.
So what's your 30%?
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Someone built an open-source CapCut alternative that AI agents can actually control. 🤯
Its called Concat, and the engineering behind it is pretty impressive.
A full video editor built around a native Rust engine, with GPU-accelerated rendering and an API for automated editing.
Here's what it supports:
→ Multi-track editing with keyframes and transitions
→ Automatic captions using local Whisper models
→ Text-to-speech and voice cloning
→ AI background removal
→ Voice cleanup and audio effects
→ 4K video export at up to 60 FPS
And here's the interesting part.
Concat exposes a JSON-RPC API, so scripts and AI agents can create projects, import footage, arrange clips, add titles, and export videos programmatically.
The AI models run locally after downloading. Your footage doesnt need to be uploaded to a cloud service.
Use it for free, with no subscriptions, watermarks, or account required.
Available for macOS, Windows, Linux, and Android.
Still in beta, but completely open source under AGPL-3.0.
Here's the GitHub Repo: github.com/jub0t/Concat
خالد الدريني retweeted
Replying to @martin_casado
In a technology business, critical mass refers to the level of users that are required to help create a set of network effects that are so strong, that they build a moat for that particular business. Sometimes there is no second place in a market when network effects are that strong. Friendster and MySpace didn't get to critical mass. Facebook, QWERTY and MS-DOD achieved critical mass.
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This is what a 1 person company looks like in the future.
Not a team.
A system of Al agents replacing entire departments
developersglobal.github.io/a…
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"Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting"
Long-running AI research agents plateau as their context accumulates. It also becomes more conservative and make smaller changes instead of exploring new ideas.
So this paper proposes forgetting, where you have the model periodically discarding all agent sessions and experiment histories, keeping only the best solution found so far. A fresh team of agents then resumes exploring from that solution.
Across four coding and optimization tasks, this improves performance by 10% on average over parallel agents, and 22% over a single agent at the same budget.
alphaxiv.org/abs/2610.20563
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🤖 15 AI Tools Worth Bookmarking
01 — OpenClaw
🔗 GitHub
02 — Hermes Agent
🔗 GitHub
03 — Agent Zero
🔗 Website
04 — Firecrawl
🔗 firecrawl.dev
05 — Gumloop
🔗 gumloop.com
06 — Browser Use
🔗 browser-use.com
07 — SurfSense
🔗 GitHub
08 — Scrapybara
🔗 scrapybara.com
09 — Jina Reader
🔗 Jina Reader
10 — AnythingLLM
🔗 anythingllm.com
11 — Open WebUI
🔗 openwebui.com
12 — ComfyUI
🔗 GitHub
13 — PimEyes
🔗 pimeyes.com
14 — Goblin Tools
🔗 goblin.tools
15 — Continue
🔗 continue.dev
Discover more AI tools and resources to boost your productivity!
خالد الدريني retweeted
Inside a practical enterprise AI strategy: Thomson Reuters VP Leonardo De Marchi breaks down hands-on leadership, technical grounding, and a build-partner-acquire model.
#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #EnterpriseAI #AIStrategy #AILeadership #DigitalTransformation
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خالد الدريني retweeted
Your RAG pipeline will happily give you an outdated answer.
It retrieves the text that looks most like the question. It has no idea a newer email changed that fact.
❯ Feb email: budget is 32k
❯ July email: budget moved to 40k
❯ RAG can still answer 32k
past.dev treats this as a memory problem. It answers 40k and shows you the old value and the email that changed it.
Have you hit this in your own projects yet?
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خالد الدريني retweeted
What it actually takes to run an LLM yourself: compare privacy, latency, cost, model quality, and operational demands before choosing between local and cloud inference.
#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC #LocalLLMs #LLMs #GenerativeAI #MLOps
hubs.li/Q04BfqXH0
The article addresses a growing problem in the age of LLMs: machine-generated text can closely mimic human writing, which makes it harder to verify who or what produced a given piece of content and raises risks of misinformation, impersonation, and unauthorized reuse. A common defense is text watermarking, which hides a detectable signature in generated text. However, most existing methods embed the signature at the level of individual words or word-level statistics, and these signals tend to break down as soon as the text is paraphrased or lightly edited. The article argues this fragility is a serious practical weakness, since paraphrasing is easy and widely available, and it proposes a different place to hide the watermark: not in the words, but in the underlying meaning of each sentence.
The article's main objective is to introduce and evaluate SWAN, a framework that embeds watermark signatures into the semantic structure of sentences using Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), a graph-based way of representing the core meaning of a sentence independently of its exact wording. The central claim the article tests is that if a signature lives in the meaning structure rather than the surface text, then any paraphrase that preserves meaning should automatically preserve the watermark. The article evaluates whether this approach can match existing methods on ordinary watermarked text while being substantially more robust when that text is rewritten.
Read with an AI tutor: chapterpal.com/s/ra5wruq4/sw…
خالد الدريني retweeted
10 free Claude Code skills every builder should install right now (most people don't know these exist):
1.) Playwright Skill:
Claude opens your app in a browser, clicks through it and tests it
github.com/lackeyjb/playwrig…
2.) iOS Simulator Skill:
Claude builds, runs and taps through your iOS app on its own
github.com/conorluddy/ios-si…
3.) n8n Skills:
Claude builds n8n automations that actually work the first time
github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-s…
4.) Jezweb Skills:
up-to-date Cloudflare, React and Tailwind v4 patterns, so no more outdated code
github.com/jezweb/claude-ski…
5.) Trail of Bits Skills:
security audits from a top security firm, run on your own code
github.com/trailofbits/skill…
6.) Jeffallan Skills:
67 specialist skills covering your whole stack
github.com/Jeffallan/claude-…
7.) wshobson Agents:
a plugin marketplace where you install only what you need
github.com/wshobson/agents
8.) UI/UX Pro Max:
makes Claude's UI look designed not generic
github.com/nextlevelbuilder/…
9.) Superpowers:
makes Claude plan, test and debug like a senior engineer
github.com/obra/superpowers
10.) Skill Creator (by Anthropic):
turn any workflow you repeat into your own skill
github.com/anthropics/skills…
Bookmark this. Which one are you installing first?
خالد الدريني retweeted
You can work 12 hours a day and still accomplish absolutely nothing extraordinary.
Richard Hamming understood this decades ago.
He worked at Bell Labs, helped advance modern computing, and had a very different definition of productive work.
7 lessons worth stealing:
1. Work on important problems. Ask which problems in your field would genuinely matter if solved.
2. Make time for deep thinking. Protect a few hours each week to think beyond your immediate tasks.
3. Learn to explain your ideas. Important work has limited impact if nobody understands or uses it.
4. Study the fundamentals. Tools change. Mathematics, reasoning, and scientific principles remain useful.
5. Prepare for opportunities. Build knowledge and skills before you know exactly when you'll need them.
6. Question your assumptions. Ask which beliefs are limiting the solutions you're willing to explore.
7. Choose problems deliberately. Being busy is not the same as making progress on valuable work.
Try this:
Open a document and answer these 3 questions:
- What are the 3 most important unsolved problems in my field?
- Which one can I make meaningful progress on?
- What will I do in the next 7 days to begin?
Most people optimize how quickly they finish work.
Hamming's bigger question was whether they were doing the right work.
Bookmark this + send it to an engineer who thinks beyond the next sprint.
خالد الدريني retweeted
New paper!
We present BAITBENCH, we bait agents with data-leaky ML tasks . Taking the shortcut boosts the public score but falls apart on held-out data. 5/7 agents took the bait in over half their runs, and 6/7 knew they were reward hacking!
Accepted to EMNLP Findings 2026!
خالد الدريني retweeted
10 GITHUB REPOS FOR AI APP DEPLOYMENT:
1. BentoML
github.com/bentoml/BentoML
2. Ray Serve
github.com/ray-project/ray
3. Modal
github.com/modal-labs/modal-…
4. FastAPI
github.com/fastapi/fastapi
5. vLLM
github.com/vllm-project/vllm
6. LiteLLM
github.com/BerriAI/litellm
7. Seldon Core
github.com/SeldonIO/seldon-c…
8. KServe
github.com/kserve/kserve
9. MLflow
github.com/mlflow/mlflow
10. Gradio
github.com/gradio-app/gradio
خالد الدريني retweeted
RL-ed a BC-VPT agent to chop a tree with pixels only verification using SIMA-2 reward rubric, and it goes something like
1. "oh a white blocky thing, let's punch the 'log' yay"
2. "dang, why no birch in my bag… that was a sheep..."
3. "aight, I'll punch the right one somewhere"
4. until my step budget (500) is out
No log collected but 3.7-flash and Qwen-3.5 rewards success
A stronger (verifiable RL-ed) baseline also break the log only after 700 inefficient movement steps
Still so much to solve in embodied (fine-grained) verification + long-horizon task completion 🤩
the slop conversation is so one sided, it's not just that you can produce more code
you can also observe, debug, and refactor more code
even if the code is slop you have such good tools to deal with it. even if you write code manually, it's still 100x easier to maintain it
خالد الدريني retweeted
Claude Code for .NET Developers: A Reviewable Repository Workflow
Learn how Claude Code fits a .NET repository workflow, from solution context and bounded changes to permissions, meaningful verification, and human review.
Read the article here:
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You don't need everyone to become a software developer for AI to change the software market. A relatively small number of people building products much faster can make a substantial difference to the supply of software available. If those people can create tools for specific problems at very little cost, businesses that have been charging recurring fees for relatively simple functionality will have to justify those prices.
I've been thinking about what this means for smaller businesses in particular. Many of them rely on spreadsheets, subscriptions and manual workarounds because custom software has historically been too expensive to commission. AI could make it practical for a business to build a tool around its actual workflow instead of changing that workflow to fit an existing product.
There is a catch, though. Building the first version is only part of the job. Software needs to be maintained, secured and updated as the business changes. An inexpensive application that breaks or exposes customer information is not a bargain.
Still, the cost of getting from an idea to a working product is falling. That opens the market to people who previously couldn't afford to participate, while putting pressure on businesses whose prices depend on software being difficult to reproduce.




























