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AI Development
Sleeper Agent LLMs and the Untrusted Text That Shapes AI Plans
A review of sleeper agent LLMs led us to a narrower risk in our AI development platform: untrusted discovery answers can shape an early scope draft. Here is what the review supports and what we recommend changing.
· 6 min read
AI Development
Claude Code Skills From Real Engineers: The One Idea We Adopted for Bug Triage
A famous engineer's open-sourced skills directory, audited idea-by-idea: what we adopted (evidence-gated triage confidence), what we rejected, and the refutation method that decides.
· 5 min read
AI Development
We Reviewed Claude Plugins Against Our Codegen Pipeline — and Kept What We Had
Anthropic's Claude plugins bundle tools and skills for one-click install. We compared that model against our production AI development platform and found we already solve the same problem—with stronger trust and reproducibility gates.
· 7 min read
AI Development
Utopia Hit +3344 GitHub Stars. Our RAG Stack Already Had the Idea That Matters.
GitHub trending project utopia sells bitemporal facts as the fix for stale RAG. We compared it to our production AI development platform and found provenance and staleness already engineered—without the ontology weight.
· 7 min read
AI Development
Two AI Models That Can’t Hallucinate — and Why We Adopted Neither
Two "System One" decision models launched weeks apart — one proprietary, one Apache 2.0. They return typed values instead of text, so malformed output is structurally impossible. We reviewed both against our own AI development platform and adopted neither, and the reason had nothing to do with speed.
· 7 min read
AI Development
AI Context Reduction: What a 98% Cut Costs You
A tool claiming 98% less context use made us re-examine our own retrieval. Here's how context reduction actually works — and the one axis where their approach beats ours.
· 6 min read
AI Development
Meta’s Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2: Meta Graded Its Own Benchmark
Meta entered the AI coding wars with Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2. We went looking for the independently verified benchmarks, found none, and worked out what the harness-coupled headline score really means before touching our routing.
· 5 min read
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AI Slop Design: Why Every AI Landing Page Looks the Same
Every AI-generated landing page converges on the same skeleton. Evaluating an anti-slop skill exposed the fixed template hiding in our own pipeline — and the archetype fix that ended it.
· 5 min read
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What Are Claws? The Always-On Layer Above AI Agents
Karpathy's "Claws" describes an always-on layer above LLM agents. We already run one — here's what the idea gets right, and the feature we refused to ship.
· 6 min read