Archive - The Applied Stack

Same Model, Different Harness: The 10 Components That Decide Whether Your AI Agent Works

A controlled study took one model from 6.4% to 58.4% on SWE-Bench Verified without touching its weights. Here's every harness component, the code for…

Sep 27 • Brij Pandey

RAG in 2026: What Changed and What Still Breaks in Production

Million-token context windows didn't kill retrieval. They changed what good retrieval looks like.

Sep 25 • Brij Pandey

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