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YouTube 2026-10-20-1

AI Agents Cut 3-Day Portfolio Builds to Minutes — Jack McDonald, Apollo & Michael Manapat, Rowspace

Rowspace cut a CLO mock-portfolio build across 200-400 credit names from 2-3 days in Excel to minutes, about 80-90% complete, with the PM finishing the last 10%. The trust comes from staff encoding which of 20 sources wins, worked out with the client's finance team on site. That human-adjudicated rulebook is what the physics and grant-writing reads are missing.

felixrieseberg.com 2026-10-17-1

How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models

Rieseberg's tutorial reads as ambition advice, but every example that worked rested on a verifier. The crash-free app workflow needed crash-report access, version-to-commit mapping, and Windows, macOS and Linux machines to reproduce bugs, and his fourth prompt question asks what other than you or the model shows the result is right. He dates the outside-judge rule to October 2026, which makes it a workaround with an expiry, and the VAGEN paper is one attempt to build the real thing.