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arXiv cs.AIPaper6d ago

MOONWALK: Mediating Operations with Intent-Evidence-Action Alignment Across Junior-Supervisor Review Workflows in Animation/VFX Pre-Production

This is domain-specific workflow tooling that uses AI for coordination, not creation. The core insight is that creative intent gets lost in translation, and having an auditable trail solves a real studio problem. Not broadly applicable, but if you're building tools for creative teams or thinking about AI as a process layer rather than a content layer, the framework is worth studying.

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arXiv cs.AIPaper15d ago

AgentFactory: Towards Automated Agentic System Design and Optimization

The problem is real: manually tuning agents across model choice, tool selection, and orchestration is expensive and brittle. Joint optimization makes sense in principle. The execution is not clear from the excerpt, so the question is whether AgentFactory actually finds meaningfully better configs than manual tuning or ablation. If it does and the configs are portable, this is useful infrastructure. Worth a closer look if you are shipping production agents.

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OpenAI NewsArticle15d ago

How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability

This is vendor storytelling that highlights use cases rather than teaching you how to build. The interesting pattern is that all three are using agents for process automation in knowledge work, which is a real category, but OpenAI isn't revealing what made these succeed or fail. Read the actual company posts if they exist; this post is marketing wrapper on case studies.

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