Working Notes on Agent Systems/Brad Zhang

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It was actually expected when I saw this news in the morning. The backend is relatively...

It was actually expected when I saw this news in the morning. The backend is relatively stable, and there will be less concurrency of platform-level products at the level of Int...

December 3, 2025 · 1 min read

It was actually expected when I saw this news in the morning. The backend is relatively...
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It was actually expected when I saw this news in the morning.

The backend is relatively stable, and there will be less concurrency of platform-level products at the level of Internet e-commerce in the future.

For performance, just focus on agent performance.

Look at the last picture, nana banana occupies the top three positions.

Do you think Anthropic and OpenAI can't be in a hurry?

OpenAI has rarely lit up a red light internally in the past three years, saying it has reached its most difficult moment.

Don't underestimate front-end capabilities.

Students who have done front-end development know how many pitfalls there are.

The upper limit here is very high

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