Ethen topics
Topics
Each topic hub explains one area Ethen works in and connects the Ethen Blog articles, Ethen Research Lab publications, and products that cover it.
- AI Agents & Autonomous Work
An AI agent is software that uses a model to plan and take actions toward a goal, often over many steps and against external systems. Autonomous work is the part that matters operationally: the agent acts rather than only answers, so its effects persist after the conversation ends.
- Agent Verification & Evaluation
AI agent verification is checking, with evidence that does not depend on the agent's own account, that an agent did what it was supposed to do. Evaluation is the broader practice of measuring how well agents, and the verifiers that judge them, actually perform.
- Model Intelligence & Routing
Model intelligence is the information needed to choose an AI model for a task: capabilities, benchmark evidence with its provenance, price, latency, and availability. Model routing is the decision itself: which model, provider, and configuration should handle a given request.
- AI Coding Agents
An AI coding agent is an AI agent that works inside a software repository: it reads the code, plans a change, edits files, and checks the result, usually by running tests.
Other areas
Ethen also publishes on Computer Use (see AI Agents & Autonomous Work), Memory & Context (see AI Agents & Autonomous Work, AI Coding Agents), Multimodal AI (see Model Intelligence & Routing), Enterprise AI, AI Infrastructure (see Model Intelligence & Routing), Data & Learning, Security & Trust (see Agent Verification & Evaluation), Robotics. These areas do not have hubs yet. Their articles and publications are listed on the Ethen Blog and in Ethen Research Lab.