Things in progress, including the dead ones

Lab

4 experiments · 1 running

On-device wake word

If wake detection and speaker verification both run locally, an always-on microphone never needs a network path — and privacy stops being a policy and becomes a property of the architecture.

onnxaudio
running

Deterministic comment matcher

For deciding which comment opted in, a plain keyword match beats a model — it is auditable, it is free, and it cannot invent a recipient.

automation
shipped

Agent cost meter

Measured token spend should replace the flat per-call estimate everywhere. The measurement already arrives on every response; nothing reads it.

agentssdk
parked

Autonomous content lane

An agent given a goal and a budget will produce publishable work unsupervised. It will not, if you fence it away from the act of publishing.

autonomy
died usefully
Rule

When two failures share a cause, stop tuning the parameter and go fix the cause.

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