Daily Kickoff

Up to seven things a day for people building with AI. Fewer when there aren't seven.

  1. How Figma Uses AI Agents for Security

    Figma built AI agents, using models like Claude Opus, to triage security alerts by querying Panther SIEM, AWS, Okta, GitHub, GCP, and osquery across more than 100 sources. The system cut resolution time for complex alerts by about 70% and reduced on-call pages by 20%, with agent-created PRs set to draft by default for human review.

    InfoQ AI/ML agentic coding

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  2. OpenAI will sell you Astra, but not the system that scored 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3

    On ARC-AGI-3, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 62.7% under ARC Prize's standard test harness but 98.6% under OpenAI's own Provider Adapter, with the higher score costing less: $17,332 versus $26,098. Across the 167 tasks both harnesses solved, the adapter runs used 49% fewer tokens and ran about 3.66x faster, showing how much the surrounding software can shape a benchmark result.

    The New Stack models & research

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