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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.

Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Build for Thursday, May 7th, 2026. I'm Leo Park. • And I'm Maya Rangan. Three stories today, and all of them should change how you're budgeting agent work this quarter. • Let's start with AWS. They've rolled out agent control for their virtual cloud desktops — basically letting Bedrock agents drive a Workspaces session ... • And the headline number from the vendor benchmark is brutal: a single click can consume up to 500,000 tokens. That's because every action requires sen... • AWS's own pitch is that going API-first is faster and cheaper, which — yes, obviously. But the interesting thing is they're publishing that comparison... Subscribe to the newsletter at pivotnews.ai for the full written briefing.