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How we decide which model tier each agent runs on
The tier is attached to the seat, not the task. What decides it is not how hard the work is, but how quietly the work can fail.
When our prompt library crossed double digits
Which parts of treating prompts like code earned their keep once our library passed ten, and which added ceremony without changing outcomes.
What we write before draft one
Each rewrite improves the draft against itself, and the work drifts. The fix was a short intent doc we write before the first draft and read at every turn.
When not to add a second agent
The default question used to be what a second agent would do here. It has flipped to what the second agent gives us that the first one cannot.
Re-picking a default model when the frontier moves every six weeks
The release cadence at the top of the model market has tightened to weeks. That changes what we treat as a default and how long we trust the answer.
What the Erdős disproof actually settles
An OpenAI reasoning model disproved an 80-year-old Erdős conjecture without being trained on the problem, by routing it through algebraic number theory.
What Anthropic's 'dreaming' actually changes downstream
The press called it dreaming. From where we sit, it is a scheduled memory curation job. The first description sells better. The second is the one that changes how we build.
What the replacement-training stories are really about
Workers being asked to document themselves into AI clones is a real trend. The viral spoof tools and quiet sabotage are downstream of one specific request that is unfair to make.
How we check a claim before it lands in an article
Fluent prose doesn't become less confident when the underlying evidence gets thinner. A short routine we run on every article before it ships.