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Smart Brevity 8: Train the decision point: when to stop thinking, which harness to borrow, which model to call
Train the decision point: when to stop thinking, which harness to borrow, which model to call; LoCo: same-prefix preference pairs teach a reasoning model when to stop; Harness-S: sibling harnesses rescue failed RL groups, then the skill moves into the policy; Route Anything: oracle headroom says routing pays in cost before quality; System-1 gate: predict, gate, execute, update, with savings set by how rare useful actions are; Pandora: separate what a simulated user feels from how they say it; Kling: captions as a contract and a trained prompt rewrite layer; Judge check: compare AI and human rankings at the top, not on average; Claude Mods: middleware hooks and the attenti
- 6 days ago7 min
MailDump 12: Hairdressers, Hiring Data, and the Fence Around the Model
A trusted hairdresser versus a film budget in climate communication, a hiring crisis that may be about remote work, the access fences labs build around risky models, the chip market splitting for agents, and what error bars hide. From the archive: twelve years of advice on whether to own one channel or two.
- 1 weeks ago8 min
Smart Brevity 7: Score the net, not the gross: memory, training data, and benchmarks judged against the plain baseline
Score the net, not the gross: memory, training data, and benchmarks judged against the plain baseline; Memory tax: agent memory must beat naive RAG over raw history, and often does not.; Benchmarks as difficulty measures: measure mismatch and coverage gaps hide what a score really says.; Decision grounding: train only on actions the agent could justify from what it saw.; Turn-level credit assignment: agents decide in turns, so RL should assign credit per turn.; Interface lock-in: fine-tuning one answer format improves only that readout.; Decision models as routing economics: send yes/no agent steps to cheap typed-answer models.; In-situ interventions: a few dozen examples
- 2 weeks ago25 min
AI Systems, Week 2: How much does the interface shape the model?
Week 2 of AI Systems: Models, Harnesses and Agents. Why two tools that can make the same edit can set a model very different problems: tool contracts, trajectories, the failure points in tool use, capability versus elicitation, and why the error a tool returns is half the interface.
- 2 weeks ago7 min
MailDump 11: Thirteen Out of One Hundred
Why coding agents ace the benchmark and flunk the job, what happens to content when the reader is an agent, three ways to handle a tax-loss problem, dosing versus rewriting aging, how early hires get picked, and an archive thread on engaging versus excluding in conservation.
- 3 weeks ago8 min
Smart Brevity 5: Guarantees come from structure, not from asking nicely
Guarantees come from structure, not from asking nicely; Waypoint-gated distillation: transfer only the RL shifts that early and late training agree on; Decision-native models: null-aware, order-proof, scalable, and cacheable by construction; Thinking inertia: no-think switches leak reasoning, so measure answer-only compliance; Demo versus delivery evals: held-out acceptance, business-uplift scoring, priced clarifying questions; User-modifiable harnesses: users edit the agent loop, subagents, and routing; Cache-aware economics: stable prefixes first, judge models by cost per completed task
- 3 weeks ago24 min
AI Systems, Week 1: Where does an agent's behaviour come from?
Week 1 of AI Systems: Models, Harnesses and Agents. Where an agent's behaviour comes from: weights, context, inference compute, and the runtime that executes its actions; how to attribute a behaviour with controlled interventions instead of guessing.
- 3 weeks ago7 min
MailDump 10: Practice Rooms for Robots, and a Cliff Already Born
A chip maker pays eight billion dollars for a model that invents camera angles, two AI labs disagree about who holds the agent's leash, colleges face arithmetic that has nothing to do with AI, and an archive thread on thinking with the body.
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