Martinfowler iconMartinfowlerSep 1, 2026 ~1 min source read

Fragments: September 1

paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. I'm old enough to see all sorts of new tic-phrases appear, and in the past would just chalk it up to youngsters or airport business books.

Fragments: September 1

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paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs.

AVO is designed to preserve progress beyond a single model context.

I'm old enough to see all sorts of new tic-phrases appear, and in the past would just chalk it up to youngsters or airport business books.

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paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. I'm old enough to see all sorts of new tic-phrases appear, and in the past would just chalk it up to youngsters or airport business books. (Not to mention Americanisms, which I'll get used to momentarily.) ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ NVIDIA's technical blog reports on an Architecture for Long-Horizon Autonomous Agents.

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  • Their research group used a combination of Claude Opus 5 and a harness called AVO, and used it first to do GPU kernel optimization and then a broader reasoning benchmark (ARC-AGI-3).
  • Both of these were long-term tasks, for the kernel optimization the agent ran for seven days.

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Like many readers, I'm wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter. It references a wikipedia page of signs of AI writing.

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