Blog
The latest from our team
Testing coding agents' ability to improve a feature automatically
Autonomous Iteration
June 10, 2026
Experiment
The promise and peril of collocating code and coding agent
Every Server Deserves a Coding Agent
May 1, 2026
Experiment
How we define "done" for AI agents using verifiable contracts
Contract Engineering
April 9, 2026
Essay
Tooling and infrastructure for autonomous software engineering
Unblocking Agents
March 31, 2026
Essay
Give agents modular functions instead of prescriptive workflows
Primitives over Pipelines
March 4, 2026
Essay
The bridge between AI research and products
Introducing Rubric Labs
March 31, 2025
Announcement
How we fine-tuned a small GPT model to flag spam in our inbound contact form, using dozens of historical spam tags stored in Postgres as training data.
Fine-tuning a GPT model for spam detection
November 29, 2024
Experiment
A recap of a summer of projects at the Lab, from the Rubric UI component library to Genson, an experiment in generating full React UIs with LLMs.
My Summer at Rubric
September 8, 2024
Essay
How to use multi-staging workflows to build and test multiple full-stack changes in parallel, from local development to production, in record time.
Multi-staging → Local → Prod in record time
February 16, 2024
Experiment
How trends in open-source large-language models are converging to usher in cheap, abundant intelligence. The state of LLM capability, cost, and timeline.
Planning for near-free AI
January 7, 2024
Essay
Create Rubric App is an open-source, full-stack AI agent template in the spirit of Create React App. Learn how it works and how to remix it for your purposes.
Create Rubric App
November 1, 2023
Announcement