Exploring AI, One Insight at a Time
RLHF: Who Actually “Aligned” Your AI?
We need to stop pretending that “alignment” is an engineering term. In structural engineering, alignment means ensuring a bridge doesn’t collapse under load. In AI, “alignment” currently means ensuring the chatbot doesn’t say something that tanks the stock…
The “Black Box” Problem: Why We Can’t Audit AI
Executive Summary If you’ve ever tried to debug a neural network, you know the specific flavor of existential dread I’m talking about. In traditional software development—the world we lived in for the last fifty years—code was deterministic. If…
The Token Trap: Why “Unlimited Context” is a Lie
Quick Summary You’ve seen the demos. A founder drops an entire Harry Potter novel, a complex legal library, and a messy Python codebase into a prompt window. They ask a question. The model answers correctly. The crowd cheers.…
It’s Just Math, Stupid: Why AI “Hallucinations” Are a Feature, not a Bug
Executive Summary: The Technical Reality Three years ago, a lawyer made headlines for citing non-existent court cases generated by ChatGPT. He was ridiculed. In 2026, we still see enterprise pilots implode because a CEO asks a model to…
Fine-Tuning vs. RAG: The $50,000 Mistake
I am tired. I have spent the last three years in San Francisco coffee shops, listening to pitch decks that all sound exactly the same. A founder sits down, eyes wide, and tells me, “We’re building a custom…