CS2680 Modern AI Systems: Agents and System Optimizations
News from the watchlist

What the 45 sources on blogs to watch have published, grouped by subject rather than by publisher, and rebuilt every hour.

Updated 41 minutes ago, from 45 sources, holding 1500 posts.

The page shows the last 90 days, which is 1500 posts of the 1500 the index holds, across 18 topics.

All topics

Everything in the window, newest first, whatever topic it was filed under.

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Agent harnesses and orchestration

How an agent loop is built, driven, and kept on task.

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Coding agents

Agents that read, write, and review code, and the benchmarks that grade them.

Tools, MCP, and context

Tool interfaces, protocols, memory, and what the model is given to work with.

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Sandboxing and agent security

Containment, permissions, and the attacks that target agents.

Evaluation and reliability

Measuring whether an agent works, and keeping it working.

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Inference and serving

Serving engines, request paths, and end-to-end latency and throughput.

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KV cache and prefix caching

Reusing computed attention state across requests and turns.

Scheduling, batching, and disaggregation

How requests are batched, placed, and split across a fleet.

Model architecture and decoding

The shapes of the models being served and how tokens come out of them.

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Kernels and quantization

The arithmetic itself: kernels, numerics, and compilers.

Accelerators and networking

Silicon, interconnect, and the fabric between them.

Training and RL infrastructure

The other half of the fleet: pre-training, post-training, and RL loops.

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Cost, energy, and capacity

What the fleet costs to buy, run, and power.

Storage and databases

Durability, query execution, and the layers under both.

Distributed systems and networking

Agreement, addressing, and moving bytes between machines.

Serverless, containers, and virtualization

The unit of deployment and the machinery that starts it.

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Observability and failure recovery

Seeing what the system did, and what happens after it breaks.

Everything else

Posts from the watchlist that no topic above claims.

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Sources and the last run

How a post is filed

Grouping by subject is the point. A reader gives you 45 separate streams and leaves you to notice that four companies wrote about the same scheduling problem this week; this page puts those four posts under one heading. Topics come from the filter terms already listed on the blogs-to-watch page, so the vocabulary is the course's.

Each post is scored by keyword against every topic, using its title and its summary, and it is filed under the topic it scores highest against. A term that names a subject on its own counts for more than one that merely co-occurs with it, and a match in the title counts for three times a match in the summary. Any second topic a post also matches is shown as a label beside it. The method is keyword matching rather than a model, which makes it predictable, cheap, and occasionally wrong.

Nothing on this page is required reading.

The index covers 45 sources from the watchlist. 37 publish a feed and are read from it; the other 8 publish none, so their index pages are scraped and each new post's own page supplies the title and date its card omits.

Last run finished 26 Oct 2026 at 01:07 UTC. The index holds 1500 posts, keeps them for 120 days, and shows 1500 posts on this page.

1 source failed on the last run. Replit (HTTP 403)

1 source answered but yielded no post: Anthropic Engineering.

The last run read 824 posts across every source and added nothing new.

4 sources on the watchlist are not aggregated here, so check them by hand.

  • Intel Developer. The Lithium community platform answers 403 to every automated request, feed paths included.
  • Uber Engineering. The index renders client-side, there is no feed, and the only sitemap is the whole-site marketing index.
  • LinkedIn Engineering. The index renders client-side and there is no feed.
  • Artificial Analysis. A standing benchmark dashboard rather than a blog, so it publishes no post stream.

A date shown as "first seen" is not a publication date. Some sources publish no date at all, so the page records when the post entered the index instead of guessing.