Claude Mythos found cryptographic weaknesses in HAWK and reduced-round AES after 60 hours and ~$100K in API costs
“no we don't want to change the targets [...] agian we need to find something that worth publishing”
prompt-engineering
10 tracked signals on prompt-engineering.
Brand voice in AI agents fails on edge cases unless instructions are layered into a four-tier architecture instead of one prompt.
“I'm not programming a robot, I'm managing a brilliant intern with an incredibly high IQ and a terrible EQ.”
Agent 'skills' are dynamically loaded prompts enabling progressive capability disclosure
“Skills are just prompts, they're fancy prompts, but they're really easy to share and they can help agents really narrow in and do a certain task well.”
Enterprises should replace prompt-first AI coding with specification-driven development practices.
“Stop treating the prompt as the main artifact and start treating the specification as that main artifact.”
Databricks Genie Agents require careful single-prompt design to avoid generic data retrieval errors
“Ask a generic agent about revenue, and it'll likely grab the first revenue table”
A nightly cron prompt can automate dependency rebasing and validation via coding agents
“Set up a nightly cron job that executes the prompt: fetch upstream changes to the <software> and rebase all local changes on top of upstream. Check that the software works as intended and replace the current version.”
Amazon Bedrock launches Advanced Prompt Optimization to automate multi-model prompt migration and tuning.
YouTube Ads team built agent reliability via layered evals, critique agents, and strong tool foundations.
“the reliability of your agent is basically a function of the capabilities of the agent uh the guard rails and the evals”
AWS publishes component-level prompt engineering patterns for Amazon Quick productivity suite
“Be specific by stating what you want to achieve, for whom, and why.”
GitHub Copilot desktop app can generate a portfolio website directly from a resume PDF.
“my favorite part of writing the prompt is always to create a clear goal as you said. But on top of that, I love to collaborate with the models.”