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Nov 5, 2026
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Your best AX fixes are hiding in agent trajectories

Waldek Mastykarz

All five agent runs produced a working script, and nothing in the eval score looked wrong. The trajectories told a different story. Every run read a DLL as raw bytes to find plugin names, and three scripts would quietly reroute a CI runner's network traffic. Here are the patterns to look for in your own agents' trajectories, and what to change in y...

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Oct 30, 2026
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Does ‘eval’ in the workspace path change what your agent does?

Waldek Mastykarz

Your eval might be telling the agent it's a test before the agent reads a single instruction. Eval tools need a fresh folder for every run, and the easiest way to get one is a temp directory with a random name like . The agent sees that path on every turn, in the system prompt as its working directory and in the output of every tool call. If models...

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Oct 20, 2026
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Can a local git remote replace GitHub in your agent eval?

Waldek Mastykarz

We swapped GitHub for a local git remote in our agent evals. Rebasing and pushing on request were unaffected, but the agent pushed on its own 11 points less often. Here's when a local remote is a safe shortcut, and when it isn't.

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Oct 9, 2026
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Introducing the Agent Experience (AX) Practitioner Playbook

Waldek Mastykarz

AI coding agents now pick the SDK, the version, and the pattern for your developers. The AX Practitioner Playbook is our method for finding out whether they get your technology right, and for fixing the sources they rely on when they don't.

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Oct 6, 2026
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What is Agent Experience (AX)?

Waldek Mastykarz

Your agent says it's done, and the code compiles, but did it pick your technology? Did it use it correctly? Learn what Agent Experience (AX) is, how to measure it, and why the obvious fix isn't always the right one.

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Sep 21, 2026
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Knowledge cutoff is a poor proxy for model capability

Waldek Mastykarz

A model can fail on features released before its knowledge cutoff, then succeed on ones released after it. We tested hundreds of product changes and found that the date tells you far less than the work does.

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Sep 16, 2026
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Your AI coding agent evaluation is only as good as its sandbox

Waldek Mastykarz

Your AI coding agent passed the eval. But did the model know the answer, or did it find it somewhere on your machine? A correct answer can still invalidate your measurement.

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Sep 9, 2026
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Your work might not need the smartest model

Waldek Mastykarz

The smartest model can cost five times more and deliver the same result, or even a worse one. See how evaluating your own work helps you get more value from your agent budget.

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Jul 21, 2026
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How to test agent experience changes without shipping them

Waldek,
Garry

Most changes you think will improve AI agent behavior won't. We tested a dozen hypotheses on a real project upgrade scenario and the majority failed. Learn how to emulate documentation, API, and MCP server changes locally so you can validate what works before shipping anything to production.

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