Things in progress, including the dead ones
4 experiments · 1 running
Lab
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.
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.
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.
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.
died usefully
Rule
When two failures share a cause, stop tuning the parameter and go fix the cause.