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For some tasks, verifiability is straightforward; the task hands you conditions to check candidates against and make a stopping decision. For others, it’s less clear. In this post, we discuss why that single property – verifiability – should dictate where you spend your budget next: on verification when completion is checkable, and on diversity and aggregation when it isn’t. The case against scaling first Poll most engineers about how to improve an agent and most will say: scale it. More attempts, longer and enhanced context, a stronger model. It assumes the current architecture is already right – just underpowered. Most of the time, scaling works. But it’s the expensive way to go. Over a year of agent optimization research, we have seen over and over again why this assumption (right architecture, not enough power) is wrong. 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