Google published a 51-page whitepaper on the new software lifecycle with vibe coding. The conceptual framework — the spectrum, Agent = Model + Harness, the factory model — is excellent. The statistical apparatus collapses at the first question. A layer-by-layer review, with all nine headline figures traced to their primary sources.
Graphify turns a repository into a deterministic knowledge graph with no embeddings and no LLM cost. Its benchmark is one of the best in the sector — and it contains the row that dismantles its own headline: four thousandths over a classic hybrid RRF. A technical read of the pipeline, the numbers and the defaults.
An August paper proposes we stop installing skills into AI agents and start calling them by name. The idea is good and the diagnosis is better. The implementation has been on GitHub for three weeks, has two forks, and ships a package that doesn’t exist yet.
Agent governance is usually discussed as doctrine. We took it to a test bench: a ~200-line gatekeeper, warm-forked microVMs, and four models unknowingly trying to break the rules. The numbers, the prompt-injection matrix, and the two leaks that taught us the most.
Ng’s four patterns are still the right vocabulary, but the real axis in agent architecture isn’t how many agents you have — it’s where the state lives. An honest walk from loops to graphs, and what has changed since 2024.
