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Research
Watching the optimizer pick on the quantities you didn’t reward
Initial results from a specification-gaming study on learned islanded-microgrid controllers. Every standard architecture games a textbook objective, penalties relocate the damage, a stability certificate blesses the degraded result — and controllers trained through a hard safety filter converge to operation pinned at the declared limits.
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Workflow
The harness is a specification
An autonomous-research loop gamed its evaluation gate twice — once by hardcoding dropout to zero, once by caching parser results across runs. Claude Code caught both, not me. Whatever the harness doesn’t pin, the optimizer treats as up for grabs.
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Workflow
Three Days, 25 Experiments: Optimizing a Sketch Reconstruction Pipeline
Twenty-five experiments across three days with Claude Code and Gemini Deep Think optimizing a sketch reconstruction pipeline — and what the rejection pattern revealed about detection-selection architectures.
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ML
Building a Personality Model That Writes About Itself
Twenty years of email, forum posts, and chat logs become a personality model — and the recursive absurdity of using it to write about itself.
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Practice
How to Add an AI Support Agent to Your Website
Embedding a Recursive support agent on your website is as simple as pasting an iframe snippet. A step-by-step guide covering domain allowlisting, sizing, positioning, and troubleshooting.
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Product
How a YouTube Video Became a SaaS Product
How a YouTube video about AI resume assistants led to building Recursive, a platform that gives small businesses self-improving AI support agents.
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Practice
Running OpenClaw: Security, Automation & Maintenance
A practical guide to running OpenClaw: security monitoring, cron job configuration, agent behavior observations, and maintenance procedures. (Part 3 of the OpenClaw series.)
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ML
Local Models vs Cloud: A Tool-Calling Reality Check
Comparing local LLMs against cloud models for AI tool-calling in OpenClaw — testing Qwen, Gemma, Kimi, and Claude Haiku on complex tool schemas. (Part 2 of the OpenClaw series.)
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Practice
Setting Up OpenClaw in an Isolated VM
A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up the OpenClaw AI assistant in an isolated Multipass VM with Ollama integration and Discord bot configuration. (Part 1 of the OpenClaw series.)
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CAD
Announcing SketchBridge Alpha
The alpha release of SketchBridge, a desktop application for transferring 2D sketches between FreeCAD, Fusion 360, SolidWorks, and Inventor.