Pivot Build AI Briefing — May 11, 2026

Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan In this episode: • Today we're covering why throwing every scaffolding component at your agents might be making them dumber, Apple Silicon's surprising int4 performance ... • Starting with that scaffolding study—this is going to ruffle some feathers. A new factorial study tested every combination of planning, tools, memory,... • Yeah, the numbers are brutal. On HotpotQA, a single-tool agent beat the kitchen-sink approach by 32 percent. On GSM8K math problems, a three-component... • What's fascinating is this challenges the whole 'more scaffolding equals better agents' narrative we've been hearing. I think this happens because com... • Exactly. And for builders, this means you need to test component combinations empirically for your specific use case. Stop cargo-culting every agent p... Subscribe to the newsletter at pivotnews.ai for the full written briefing.