# Articles tagged with: reading

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- [Text as an Image, Then a Magnifying Glass](https://anth.us/articles/text-as-image-lensvlm/index.md): Text as an Image, Then a Magnifying Glass: LensVLM compresses text by showing it to a vision-language model as an image, then opens the original text where the answer lives. (2026-09-24)
- [Fine at 15 tools, lost at 300](https://anth.us/articles/complexmcp/index.md): ComplexMCP puts agents in stateful MCP sandboxes with hundreds of interdependent tools. Retrieval saturates, checks get skipped, and recoverable errors become surrender. (2026-05-16)
- [Repeat the prompt when the model is not reasoning](https://anth.us/articles/prompt-repetition/index.md): When reasoning is off, send the query twice. Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Deepseek all improved, with no extra output tokens and no extra latency. (2026-02-28)
- [A vending machine is a long-horizon eval](https://anth.us/articles/vending-bench/index.md): Vending-Bench asks an agent to run a snack machine for a long time. The hard part is not stocking. It is staying coherent after the twentieth day. (2025-02-20)
- [The recipe is the news, not the model](https://anth.us/articles/deepseek-r1-recipe/index.md): DeepSeek-R1 is not a secret model. It is an open recipe: RL on verifiable rewards, then distill. Frontier reasoning behavior just got cheap to copy. (2025-01-20)
- [Change the numbers and the math falls over](https://anth.us/articles/gsm-symbolic/index.md): Apple's GSM-Symbolic paper shows that grade-school math scores are fragile. Swap the numbers, or add an irrelevant clause, and apparent reasoning collapses. (2024-10-07)
- [Automated Scientific Discovery](https://anth.us/articles/automated-scientific-discovery/index.md): Two recent papers touch on the trend of automated scientific discovery, exploring AI-driven research assistance and fully autonomous scientific experimentation. (2024-08-27)
- [Mixture of Agents](https://anth.us/articles/mixture-of-agents/index.md): Together AI is the latest to demonstrate that agentic orchestration of cheap LLMs can produce better results than directly using expensive LLMs. (2024-07-14)
- [TextGrad](https://anth.us/articles/textgrad/index.md): In the paper "TextGrad: Automatic 'Differentiation' via Text", researchers from Stanford introduce a framework for automatic differentiation via text, for LLMs. (2024-07-02)