Agents, serving engines, and the occasional side quest. Mostly written up when something surprised me, or when a result I believed turned out to be measuring the wrong thing.
An agent that grades its own work is a control loop whose sensor sits inside the plant. Every time I fixed my evaluation, it started rewarding a different degenerate agent.
A SGLang result survived every rerun and vanished only when I timed the right interval. Nsight and source tracing revealed when KV-cache pages actually matter.
Everyone is racing to build AI that can write a paper. The hard part is building one that refuses to fake it.
A Chrome extension that watches your pulse through the webcam to catch you drifting. The detector was the easy half, and I turned the thing off within a day.
A recommender scores your interest by how long you watch. A browser agent's watch time is however long the model takes to decide. So the agent expresses preferences by thinking.
Song-dynasty supernatural tales were filed for centuries as minor entertainment. They hold the richest geographic and social detail in the corpus, and the reason is structural.