Evaluation

How to Evaluate Coding Agents: Benchmarks, Trajectories, and Where Scores Lie

A leaderboard number is the least reliable way to pick a coding agent. Here's a durable coding agent evaluation method that pairs benchmarks with trajectory review and real task economics.

07/09/2026 · Model Evaluation · 8 min read

Are AI Agents Overhyped? A Data-Backed Reality Check for 2026

Zuckerberg says AI agents haven't moved as fast as he hoped, and the froth around AI IPOs is hard to ignore. Here's an honest look at where agents actually deliver in 2026 — and why execution, not intelligence, is the real gap.

07/04/2026 · Industry Trends · 9 min read

Agent Skills Best Practices: How to Structure Them (and the Mistakes to Avoid)

Most agent-skill failures aren't a model problem — they're a structure problem. Here are agent skills best practices: when to write a skill, how to scope and describe it, and how to benchmark whether it actually helps on your own tooling.

06/23/2026 · AI Tutorials · 9 min read

How to Run GLM-5.2 Locally: Setup, Hardware, and How It Stacks Up for Agents

GLM-5.2 is the strongest text-only open-weights LLM right now, and it's built for long-horizon agent work. Here's how to run GLM-5.2 locally, the hardware you actually need, and an honest read on whether it belongs in your agent stack.

06/23/2026 · AI Tutorials · 11 min read

How to Evaluate an AI Agent: Tool-Use Capability and Data-Leakage Risk

A practical framework for evaluating AI agents on two axes that both decide production-readiness: can it do the job on your own tooling, and can it be trusted not to leak data?

06/22/2026 · Model Evaluation · 7 min read

Can Your AI Agent Keep a Secret? A 2026 Guide to Agent Data Leakage and Real Evaluation

AI agent security is now an evaluation problem: agents can leak private data through ordinary-looking tool calls and still pass every leaderboard. Here's how data leakage happens, how to red-team it, and how to benchmark whether an agent is actually reliable on your own tools.

06/21/2026 · Model Evaluation · 11 min read