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Short posts from Anthus on what shipped, what we read, and what changed in AI this week.

2026-08-27#posts
Pollen Robotics shipped a $399 open-source biped with seven RL policies in the box, MuJoCo training on your machine, and a sim-to-real path that actually works.
2026-08-18#posts
Bloub reconstructs the x.ai bot avatar as one SVG shape that morphs through 14 measured states. No animation library.
2026-05-16#posts#reading
ComplexMCP puts agents in stateful MCP sandboxes with hundreds of interdependent tools. Retrieval saturates, checks get skipped, and recoverable errors become surrender.
2026-04-18#posts
RTK is a Rust proxy that compresses bash output before a coding agent reads it, so those tokens never hit the bill.
2026-03-11#posts
Everybody has an agent platform these days. Perplexity's is search, tools, and multi-model orchestration behind one endpoint.
2026-02-28#posts#reading
When reasoning is off, send the query twice. Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Deepseek all improved, with no extra output tokens and no extra latency.
2026-01-30#posts
Clawdbot became Moltbot, then OpenClaw, in about 72 hours. The lobster kept the job. The personal agent on your machine is the part that will last.
2026-01-29#posts
Beautiful Mermaid is an open source Mermaid renderer from Craft: 16 themes, SVG and ASCII, built to be fast enough for agents.