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The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=none). Then I rendered those pelicans in a comparison grid with GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, and beyond being fun the result was surprisingly useful. See the grid for full quality images. Here's the…

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Why AI Agents Keep Failing in Production (And What to Actually Build Instead)

Originally published on tamiz.pro . The Production Reality Check Every AI agent demo looks magical until it hits production.

  • AI agents fail in production due to hallucinations, context drift, and unpredictable failures.
  • Agents lack fallback mechanisms; incorrect LLM information is blindly processed, amplifying errors.
  • Shift focus from building agents to deterministic systems augmented by language models.

·dev.to

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