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michi883

6 karma · joined June 10, 2023

Independent builder in NYC. Former Google engineer. I build AI products and investigate what can actually be verified about them. https://michi.gg
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michi883··on What a stranger can verify about an AI business
I wrote this after screening 100 XPRIZE projects and testing five. What surprised me was that I could independently reproduce some fairly complicated technical claims, but not basic claims like customer count or revenue. I'm starting to wonder where reproducibility ends and auditing has to begin.
michi883··on A Taxonomy of Toddler Jokes
Toddler humor is fascinating because it's purely structural—they discover that breaking a setup or subverting a rule triggers a reaction long before they grasp semantic irony or puns.
michi883··on LLM Classification Is Feature Engineering
I took the point as: don't make the LLM the classifier. Use it to turn messy input into useful features, then let a normal model make the actual decision. That gives you thresholds/calibration you can inspect.

What I'm not sure about is how stable those features are when you switch the underlying LLM or model version.