Taking my own medicine
A studio with no client case studies owes a different kind of proof. So I ran my own methodology on my own tool — and it failed its first review.
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Working notes on operations, risk, and applied AI.
The heart of the site. Short notes from practice — the observation, the lesson, the thing I had to work out before it had a name. Each one stands on its own. A few I later develop into fuller frameworks over at Rios Applied AI; where I have, the note points the way.
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What a benchmark is really a contract for
I've been the person who had to make a vendor's system hold up to an audit. That's why the industry's move to computer-use benchmarks reads, to me, as a procurement problem first.
The contract I watched break
Fourteen years in regulated finance taught me that "same input, same output" is sacred. Then language models broke that contract — and I could see where the trouble would land.