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What I Read: Research, Agents.
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https://blog.skypilot.co/research-driven-agents/
Research-Driven Agents: What Happens When Your Agent Reads Before It Codes
Alex Kim
Apr 8, 2026
"Coding agents working from code alone generate shallow hypotheses. Adding a research phase... produced 5 kernel fusions that made llama.cpp CPU inference 15% faster."