Writing
On building agents and the environments that train them: reward design, program synthesis, what breaks in production, and who owns the weights.
Four essays
- 04 1976A frontier model passes every run on my hardest geometry task and loses to a spring written down fifty years ago; the distance between the two is a ladder, and every rung hides one more layer of machinery.
- 03 It Forgets Everything. It Sometimes Lies. Build Around It.The model is the most reliable part of your agent; the two defects that actually break it live in the system you own, and both can be designed for.
- 02 Specifications Are Decision BoundariesAn agent told to “make only the door blue” can silently rewrite three other paths in your SVG. Pixel metrics will not catch it. Fifty years of program synthesis, rearranged, will.
- 01 You Trained It. Someone Stole It. Now What?Six ways to prove a model is yours, and why the strong ones stop collecting evidence and make the model stop working without you.