Field notes from inside the lab.
Essays, technical notes, and product post-mortems. How a small lab thinks about adaptive inference, the core systems production AI is missing, and the operator economics of building them.
When the rollback gets cheap.
A new jailbreak family lands in production at 11pm Friday. Today the patch cycle is measured in weeks. We think it should be measured in seconds — and the property that closes the gap isn't the patch, it's the rollback. A note on what jailbreak defense looks like when the install is sub-minute, the removal is bit-identical, and the slot stays dormant on every benign query.
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Figure 03All writing.
The shape of a bounded write.
A frozen language model that needs to learn something after deployment almost never needs a new distribution — it needs a small, reversible overlay that sits dormant on unrelated traffic. A note on the shape of that operating point, and on what an independent lab can say in public about a construction it would rather not hand to a fast follower.
When the rollback gets cheap.
A new jailbreak family lands in production at 11pm Friday. Today the patch cycle is measured in weeks. We think it should be measured in seconds — and the property that closes the gap isn't the patch, it's the rollback. A note on what jailbreak defense looks like when the install is sub-minute, the removal is bit-identical, and the slot stays dormant on every benign query.
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