What Working at Trader Joe’s Taught Me About AI Social Bias
August 24, 2026
For most people, their issue with AI is close to home. Maybe it’s your kid who spends all their time quietly typing into their phone but when you ask about…
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What Companion AI Does to the Human: Attachment, Dependency, and the Absence of Relational Safety
August 14, 2026
I need to admit something before we continue. I am pro Companion AI. Personally, I think that we can design it in a way that is both safe and able…
The State of Companion AI Safety: A Comparative Analysis of Products, Risks, and Architectural Gaps
August 14, 2026
On my journey to understand the current state of Companion AI risks and safety, I got an eyeful. The research, some of which was so new I didn’t have to…
Reading a Room is the Same as Reading an LLM
August 11, 2026
Sometimes I have to take a step back and really wonder how it is I even got into LLM behavioral analysis. It’s not a straight line that makes sense, unless…
The Capability Induction Framework: A Systems Approach to LLM Development
August 10, 2026
First, I want to say that I definitely wrote this technical paper with the use of LLMs. Multiple, as a matter of fact. Using models to assist while I brainstorm…
Watching for the Flinch
August 5, 2026
There are as many ways to use LLMs as there are people on the earth or stars in the sky. What makes each experience unique is the combination of context…
Trust but Verify
August 4, 2026
Buckle in because you’re about to learn a lot of things about me in a very short amount of time. Last week, I turned 40. I’m unemployed, although I’m looking…