22 August 2026
AI agents became notably more capable around Christmas 2025
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- AI agents, software that performs tasks independently without constant human instruction, started working significantly better around Christmas 2025.
- The improvement came from two things happening at once: the underlying AI models reached a capability threshold while the systems controlling them matured.
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AI agents started working noticeably better around Christmas 2025. The newsletter argues this wasn't solely due to model improvements but rather the confluence of model capability crossing a threshold while the harness (the system around the model) matured simultaneously, with their improvement curves finally intersecting at the right moment.