Actual Intelligence Labs research https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research Field notes, reports, and explainers from the lab at Actual Intelligence Labs: AI agent reliability, evaluation, context engineering, and production 3D web. en-us Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[98% of the Quality for 2.5% of the Frontier Tokens]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/ai-agent-second-opinion https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/ai-agent-second-opinion Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Over-Engineering, Measured: 120 True Issues in Three Days]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/over-engineering https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/over-engineering Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The AI Benchmark Number You Cannot Check]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/ai-benchmarks https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/ai-benchmarks Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Claude Code Starts at 29,000 Tokens]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/claude-code-context-window https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/claude-code-context-window Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[We Went Looking for Context Rot at 700,000 Tokens]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/context-rot https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/context-rot Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[We Open Sourced the Harness. Then One Cost Question Gave Us Four Answers.]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/open-source-llm-eval-harness https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/open-source-llm-eval-harness Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Two AI Judges, One Document, Two Different Reviews]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/llm-as-a-judge https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/llm-as-a-judge Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[We Ran Four Agentic Coding Tools Through the Same Gate]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/agentic-ai-coding-tools https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/agentic-ai-coding-tools Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[We Rebuilt 32 Pages Around One Question: Will an AI Cite This?]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/generative-engine-optimization https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/generative-engine-optimization Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[We Let an Agent Run 60 Experiments on Our RAG Stack While We Slept]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/retrieval-token-optimization https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/retrieval-token-optimization Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Frontier You Can't See]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/the-frontier-you-cant-see https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/the-frontier-you-cant-see Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Does an LLM Understand Credible Punishment?]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/grim-trigger-folk-theorem https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/grim-trigger-folk-theorem Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[We Ran Kimi K3 Against the Frontier on Our Own Coding Gauntlet]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/kimi-k3-vs-frontier-private-eval https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/kimi-k3-vs-frontier-private-eval Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[What Are the Best Free AI Tools in 2026?]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/best-free-ai-tools https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/best-free-ai-tools Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Do AI Detectors Actually Work? The Honest, Data-Backed Answer]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/do-ai-detectors-work https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/do-ai-detectors-work Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[How Much Water Does AI Actually Use? The Real Numbers, With Error Bars]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/how-much-water-does-ai-use https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/how-much-water-does-ai-use Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Is AI a Bubble? Here Is What the Data Actually Shows]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/is-ai-a-bubble https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/is-ai-a-bubble Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Agents Were Innocent: Field Notes From a Red Wave]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/the-agents-were-innocent https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/the-agents-were-innocent Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[What Is Artificial Intelligence, in Plain English?]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/what-is-artificial-intelligence https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/what-is-artificial-intelligence Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Who Invented Artificial Intelligence?]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/who-invented-artificial-intelligence https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/who-invented-artificial-intelligence Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Will AI Take Over the World?]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/will-ai-take-over-the-world https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/will-ai-take-over-the-world Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Will AI Take Your Job? What the Data Says, Profession by Profession]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/will-ai-take-your-job https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/will-ai-take-your-job Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Why AI Agents Claim They're Done When They Aren't]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/ai-agents-premature-completion https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/ai-agents-premature-completion Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[How to Write Instruction Files AI Agents Actually Follow]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/ai-instruction-files https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/ai-instruction-files Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Running AI Coding Agents Unattended, Without Waking Up to a Mess]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/autonomous-ai-loops https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/autonomous-ai-loops Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol: A Practitioner's Field Report]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/claude-fable-5-vs-gpt-5-6-sol https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/claude-fable-5-vs-gpt-5-6-sol Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[We Ran 154 Controlled Trials of Claude vs GPT. Both Scored Perfect.]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/claude-vs-gpt-154-run-experiment https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/claude-vs-gpt-154-run-experiment Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[How to Optimize Content for Google AI Mode Search]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/google-ai-mode-seo https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/google-ai-mode-seo Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Token Efficiency: Spending an AI Context Budget Wisely]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/llm-token-efficiency https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/llm-token-efficiency Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Running AI Coding on Matt Pocock's Method, in Production]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/matt-pocock-ai-coding-method https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/matt-pocock-ai-coding-method Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[When to Fan Out Subagents: Orchestration Patterns That Work]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/multi-agent-orchestration https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/multi-agent-orchestration Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Repo Is the Only Thing an AI Agent Actually Knows]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/repo-as-source-of-truth https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/repo-as-source-of-truth Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[The Great Model Dump]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/the-great-model-dump https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/the-great-model-dump Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Why AI Agents Fail on Tasks They Can Actually Do]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/why-ai-agents-fail https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/why-ai-agents-fail Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[AI Agent Evaluation: Test the System, Not the Model]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/ai-agent-evaluation https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/ai-agent-evaluation Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Context Engineering: Designing Everything the Model Sees]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/context-engineering https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/context-engineering Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Harness Engineering: When an Agent Fails, Fix the Harness]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/harness-engineering https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/harness-engineering Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[React Three Fiber in Production]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/react-three-fiber-in-production https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/react-three-fiber-in-production Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[How Scroll Animation Websites Work]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/scroll-animation-websites https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/scroll-animation-websites Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Three.js Examples That Belong on a Business Website]]> https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/three-js-examples-for-business https://actualintelligencelabs.ai/research/three-js-examples-for-business Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT