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Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan In this episode: • Good morning, this is Pivot Build for Sunday, May 10th, 2026. I'm Leo Park. • And I'm Maya Rangan. Today is a single-topic show, but it's the kind of result that should reshape how you think about coding agent deployment this qu... • Right. A new benchmark called MOSAIC-Bench dropped on arXiv this week, and the headline number is brutal: nine pr...

Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Build for Friday, May 8th, 2026. I'm Leo Park. • And I'm Maya Rangan. Today we're looking at where the coding agent market actually stands heading into summer, and what business leaders should budget... • Let's start with the headline shift: GitHub quietly raised the per-seat price on Copilot Enterprise Agents from 39 to 49 doll...

Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Build for Saturday, May 9, 2026. I'm Leo Park. • And I'm Maya Rangan. Today: a small reasoning model trained entirely on AMD silicon, a database company taking on multi-agent state failures, and a ne... • Let's start with Zyphra. They've released ZAYA1-8B, a mixture-of-experts reasoning model with 700 million active parameters o...

Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan In this episode: • Today we're covering why coding agents need to be proactive not just autonomous, a weird bug where LLMs can't find the last items in lists, and PerfCo... • Right, so there's this new paper arguing that we've been thinking about coding agents all wrong. Everyone's obsessed with making them autonomous—you k... • Yeah, they're saying the real game-...

Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Build for Wednesday, May 13, 2026. I'm Leo Park. • And I'm Maya Rangan. Today: GitHub's new pricing for Copilot Workspace, Cursor's enterprise governance push, Vercel's agent runtime, and a sober look ... • Let's start with the wallet hit. GitHub announced yesterday that Copilot Workspace, the agentic planning and PR product, mo...

Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan In this episode: • Today we're covering why throwing every scaffolding component at your agents might be making them dumber, Apple Silicon's surprising int4 performance ... • Starting with that scaffolding study—this is going to ruffle some feathers. A new factorial study tested every combination of planning, tools, memory,... • Yeah, the numbers are brutal. On Ho...

Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Build for Thursday, May 7th, 2026. I'm Leo Park. • And I'm Maya Rangan. Three stories today, and all of them should change how you're budgeting agent work this quarter. • Let's start with AWS. They've rolled out agent control for their virtual cloud desktops — basically letting Bedrock agents drive a Workspaces session ... • And...