DeepSeek restrictions reach inside the tools
DHS's DeepSeek restrictions reach third-party tools, too. A separate poisoned-model experiment shows why knowing whose models are inside matters.
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Pi 1.0, and the Durable Agent We're Building on It
Earendil shipped Pi 1.0 and an experimental companion, Pi Durable. Pi is one of the agents Kanbus dispatches tasks to, and we like Pi Durable so much that we're building a durable Pi agent platform into Chatticus.
It's Not a System 1 Model If It Takes Ten Seconds
Fastino's GLiDE beats every open model on our reasoning benchmark, but not Jev: less accurate, five times slower, ten times the cost, and a confidence that barely tells right from wrong.
The OpenAI Decisions API Needs a Confidence You Can Trust
We've routed decisions on LLM confidence since 2023, and calibration is what we most hope OpenAI's new Decisions API gets right. The model underneath, GPT-6 Luna, isn't there yet: on 3,600 reasoning problems its 99% meant 68%, and by five…
Can Averaging Reduce Noise in an AI Decision Model?
We asked Jev the same question ten times in one request and expected ten identical answers. They split, four votes to six. Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein call that kind of variation noise. Averaging the copies didn't make Jev more accurate,…
The Next Chatbot Is Growing on This Year's Compost
Chatbots learned from everything people wrote in public. Now brands are writing fake posts in public for the chatbots to read, so the next chatbot is trained on them and repeats them as if they were true.
The Button Marked Auto Has an Owner
Millions of programmers let a setting called Auto pick which AI answers them. Lately it keeps picking Grok, the one owned by Elon Musk, whose company also owns the program they are using, and who has shown little interest in checking which…
What I’m building
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DataParadeMaps how sensitive data moves through AI-written code, across eight languages plus Terraform.B0rdA standalone LED-matrix desk display for glanceable agent status.Background
Full background →Thirty years of inventing, building and operating software: a Perl webmail product when Hotmail was new, a BlackBerry app before the iPhone, a Las Vegas ticketing platform that cleared regulators and audits, and an AI lab that put a self-improving agent system into commercial production.
B.S. Computer Science, University of Florida. Engineering intern at 3Dfx during the original Voodoo Graphics chipset.