Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know There is a quiet shift in how the best teams are getting agents to work reliably on their own systems. Prompting takes you a long way, and supervised fine-tuning takes you further, but both hit a ceiling: the agent can only be as good as the instructions you wrote or the examples you demonstrated. Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards — RLVR — breaks that ceiling by letting the agent try, checking whether it actually succeeded, and reinforcing whatever behaviour earned the win. As of 2026 this is no longer a frontier-lab luxury. It is a practical technique a small team in Bengaluru or Manchester can apply to a domain agent this quarter. The surprising thing, once you start, is where the difficulty lives. It is not in the training algorithm — that is a…
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