AI Systems
4 essays tagged “AI Systems”.
7 min read
When AI Systems “Dream”: A Failure of Architecture, Not Models
Many AI failures labeled as hallucinations are actually coherent systems operating without sufficient grounding or constraint. The fix is architectural, not model-based.
4 min readAgents Are Actors With Intent, Not Guarantees
AI agents are not a new category of system. They are actors with inference where the decision used to be, which reintroduces familiar distributed systems problems under …
5 min readGhost in the Machine: Adversarial Priors in AI Systems
Large language models learn the statistical structure of the text they are trained on. Because written language overrepresents conflict, persuasion, and strategic reasoning, the …
4 min readWhen Inference Becomes Control
The late-2025 fix for an unreliable agent was more agents. But you cannot monitor your way to control over a system that runs on inference, because inference discards the evidence …