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Stop Saying “You Are an Expert” to Your AI

Expert personas can improve alignment, but they often make the model sound smarter than it actually is.
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The Next Great AI Companies Will Not Be Universal. They Will Be Specific, Agent-Ready, and Slightly Ruthless.
The companies that win with AI will not be the ones with the best chatbot. They will be the ones that turn narrow domain knowledge and agent access into…
 • Anton Biletskiy-Volokh
The Missing Layer in AI Tooling Is Not Another Agent. It Is Identity.
AI does not just need better models. It needs a portable, explicit way to understand the human on the other side of the interface.
 • Anton Biletskiy-Volokh
AI Will Not Flatten Your Org Chart. It Will Reveal Why You Had One in the First Place
AI will not just speed up the company. It will decide whether the company still deserves to exist in its current form.
 • Anton Biletskiy-Volokh
You Do Not Build an AI System. You Discover One.
You cannot blueprint the AI system in advance. You can only discover it faster than everyone else.
 • Anton Biletskiy-Volokh
What If RLHF Is Just an Expensive Way of Not Guessing Randomly Enough?
A new paper suggests post-training may sometimes be less about optimization and more about finding the right nearby specialist.
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Loyalty Was Already Crypto. We Just Pretended It Wasn’t.
Airline miles, membership perks, discount tiers, and event access were already behaving like tokens long before Web3 arrived with a logo and a…
 • Anton Biletskiy-Volokh
The Robots Are Taking Jobs, Screening Resumes, and Apparently Replacing Guard Dogs Too
AI is already cutting jobs, filtering candidates before any human sees them, and replacing even guard dogs with machines — which suggests the labor…
 • Anton Biletskiy-Volokh
Thank You for Writing Software Character by Character
Sam Altman thanked the programmers who wrote the code that trained the machines. Then OpenAI bought Astral, and the future quietly showed up as a Git…
 • Anton Biletskiy-Volokh
Most Teams Are Not Bad at AI Coding. They’re Just Stuck on the Wrong Level.
Most teams are not failing at AI development because the models are weak. They are failing because they are still treating agentic engineering like a…
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ABV — AI · Books · Validation
ABV — AI · Books · Validation
Applied AI, books, and validation. Long-form analysis and experiments on how ideas survive contact with reality.
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