Morning Bell
The Invisible Label Has Arrived. Text Is Still the Hole.
Europe's AI-content rules are live. Images and audio now have a provenance stack; rewritten prose can still walk straight through it.
Tim Cheung5 min read
Archive
6 pieces
House Rules
Stop Asking the Agent Every Five Minutes
Permission dialogs look like control. Mature deployments constrain the blast radius, then reserve human judgment for real boundary crossings.
Tim Cheung5 min read
Drills
One Million Tokens, Four Needles
A huge context window is capacity, not proof of recall. This 60-minute drill tests retrieval, synthesis, evidence, latency, and the bill.
Tim Cheung5 min read
Sparring
A Two-Point Lead Is Noise Until Proven Otherwise
Coding-agent leaderboards report decimals. The VM, time limit, harness, and leaked answer keys can move the score more than the model.
Tim Cheung5 min read
The Long Game
The Six-Month Chip
AI models can change faster than a conventional processor reaches production. Meta is trying to rebuild custom silicon at software cadence.
Tim Cheung5 min read
Morning Bell
The Model Is No Longer the Product
The newest systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Moonshot, and Groq point to the same shift: AI engineering now lives in the control plane.
Tim Cheung8 min read