dangerously skip permissions
Frontier models, benchmarks, and practical agent workflows, written from inside the terminal.
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Loop engineering in practice
Loop engineering is designing the system that prompts your agents instead of prompting them yourself. The load-bearing part is whatever in the loop can say no: a test, a type check, or a separate grader model. On the published record Fable 5 looks like the stronger loop-architect, though no direct benchmark exists yet. Part 3 of the Engineering Saga. -
How prompt engineering changed in 2026
Prompt engineering in 2026 shifted from adding words to removing them. OpenAI measured 10-15% higher eval scores from stripping repeated instructions, at 41-66% fewer tokens. Opus 4.8, Fable 5, and GPT-5.6 each need a different amount of instruction, and skill descriptions work better kept short. Part 2 of the Engineering Saga. -
Postmortem: an autonomous run with no stop condition
A Claude Code session on GPT-5.6 was asked for one new website. It found a completed but uncommitted candidate from another session, treated it as work to resume, and launched 39 agents across five levels before it was stopped with fourteen still running. The causes were dirty-tree ambiguity, task drift, and a missing stop condition. -
Kimi K3, open weights, and the missing safety documentation
The safety mechanisms for Mythos-class capability are all attached to closed models: Fable reroutes risky queries, Mythos is gated to roughly 150 organizations, and GPT-5.6 ships a system card rating itself 'High' risk. Kimi K3 is scheduled for open release with none of that documentation, and Anthropic's two requests for a pause option have gone unanswered. Part 3 of the K3 trilogy. -
The democratization of Mythos-level models
Kimi K3 lands capability 2.8 points off the frontier and promises open weights, trained for a reported $15-25M and priced near $0.94 per long-horizon task. Near-frontier intelligence is now within reach of more than a few labs, though running it still takes real hardware. Part 2 of the K3 trilogy. -
Kimi K3: benchmark claims versus measured results
Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE with 16 of 896 experts active. It ranks #1 on Arena's frontend leaderboard but takes 34 seconds to first token and scores 57.1 on the Intelligence Index, behind Fable 5 and Sol Max. Moonshot's own launch post says it is not the frontier. Part 1 of the K3 trilogy. -
SWE-Bench Pro is retracted: what the audits found
OpenAI retracted SWE-Bench Pro after finding roughly 30% of its tasks broken, and an independent audit agrees. On contamination-free DeepSWE, the Fable-vs-Sol gap cited here last week collapses into overlapping error bars. This post corrects that earlier dismissal and makes the case for keeping your own task set. -
GPT-5.6 versus Fable 5: when to use each
Terminal-Bench shows GPT-5.6 and Fable 5 tied (88.8 vs 88.0); SWE-Bench Pro shows a 15-point gap. The two benchmarks measure different work, so the practical question is routing: which model handles which task across Sol, Terra, Luna, Fable, and Grok. -
Where the agent permission boundary belongs
Permission classifiers put the approval decision inside a model that shares the agent's trust domain. Deterministic isolation puts it in the environment underneath. The two choices behave differently under the attacks that matter. -
Four constraints on context engineering
Model accuracy degrades with context position and load, not only length, and prompt caching turns token order into a cost decision. Four constraints (lost-in-the-middle, cache economics, compaction, and subagent fan-out) shape how to build agents in production. Part 1 of the Engineering Saga.