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We publish our methods, findings, and failures. Every article is written by the team that built the system.
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3
Latest
2026-08-22
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3
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Open, sourced
  1. 01AI Governance2026-08-22Algorithmic Collusion: How Pricing Robots Learn to Rig Prices Without TalkingTwo pricing algorithms with no way to communicate can still end up holding prices high and punishing each other for undercutting. It looks exactly like a cartel, minus the one thing a hundred years of antitrust law was built to find: an agreement.Shubh Lamba19 min read
  2. 02AI Companions2026-04-25The Cigarette TestA simple test for whether your AI companion is producing genuine benefit or quietly building dependency. Not how you feel during the conversation, but what changes after you close the application.Shubh Lamba14 min read
  3. 03AI Safety2026-03-18The Behavioral Ratchet: What 80,433 Trials Reveal About LLM SycophancyWe ran 80,433 trials across six models to answer a specific question: does sycophancy increase as the context window fills up? The answer surprised us. Context length matters, but only for small models. The real driver is conversational pattern - and it is reversible.Karan Prasad7 min read