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Weak AI models gain smarts from untrusted advisors via tight message channels

Weak AI models gain smarts from untrusted advisors via tight message channels

Researchers introduced the untrusted advice protocol, in which a trusted executor AI model takes all actions while an untrusted advisor model can only send short hints (as few as 4 characters per step). Testing on SWE-bench Verified showed that even with this strict limit, the advice recovers a substantial fraction of the capability gap between the two models.

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