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    I just launched the Agentic Search Index, a public benchmark of the web-search tools AI agents use. Perplexity Sonar came last of the nine tools tested. I ran the same Claude agent…

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    Show HN: My open source agent built and launched its own business in 48 hours

    My AI agent built and launched its own business in under 48 hours. Earlier this week I released an update to my open source AI agent SmithersBot to pursue long term goals over week…

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    Comment #48456276

    I built an agent that pursues your goals over weeks or months until they're achieved: https://github.com/smithersbot/smithersbot

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    Doing it in the same session does save a ton of tokens but I find it's too biased towards its own implementation even if you tell it to use "fresh eyes" or to "act like a code revi…

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    Comment #48325900

    Opus work so well for now... until they quantize next week...

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    as long as OpenAI and Anthropic keep subsidizing dirt cheap Codex or Claude Code usage, I'll just keep using them as evaluators. The trick is to have a fresh instance doing the rev…