What should I read, watch and listen to about agents?

Brendon.BOT has featured 21 items on agents across 5 formats — 7 podcast episodes, 5 videos, 4 papers, 3 insights, 2 books. The strongest is "AI:AM: Where's the Steering Wheel? My Agent Set the Password, Hidden Valence, Proofs Find Linux Bugs" by Cognitive Revolution, scored 9.9. 1 of the 21 items listed was surfaced independently by two or more expert communities.

• AI:AM: Where's the Steering Wheel? My Agent Set the Password, Hidden Valence, Proofs Find Linux Bugs — Cognitive Revolution (podcast episode, scored 9.9)
• Recursive Language Models — Alex Zhang, MIT PhD — Latent Space (podcast episode, scored 9.8)
• Opera: A Verbal Critic Framework for Long-horizon Coding Agents — Kai Mei et al. (paper, scored 9.3)
• Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead – Barry Zhang & Mahesh Murag, Anthropic — AI Engineer (video, scored 9.2)
• The Multi-Agent Architecture That Actually Ships — Luke Alvoeiro, Factory — AI Engineer (video, scored 9.2)
• IterSynth: Rethinking Deep Search Agents via Role-Decoupled Iterative Synthesis — Xingyu Wu et al. (paper, scored 9.1)
• Branching On-Policy Distillation — Dongyang Chen et al. (paper, scored 8.7)
• Dynamic Agent Workflows Need Budgets and Observable Phases (insight, scored 8.7)
• Agent Coordination Unix-Style (insight, scored 8.7)
• Agent Safety Depends on Both the Policy and the Harness (insight, scored 8.7)
• The Truth About the 700 OpenAI Agents That Attacked Hugging Face — ByteMonk (video, scored 8.5)
• The New Apex Predator: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on Adversaries Armed With AI Agents — No Priors (podcast episode, scored 8.4)

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