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When One Patch Rules Them All: Teaching MLLMs to See What Isn’t There

A mechanism-first reading of how one reusable visual perturbation can steer closed-source multimodal models toward a chosen target across unseen images.

February 3, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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Agentic Systems Need Architecture, Not Vibes

A mechanism-first reading of why reliable AI agents need subsystem architecture, reusable design patterns, and clearer diagnosis than another enthusiastic list of agent tricks.

February 2, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina
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Algorithmic Context Is the New Heuristic

A new A* heuristic-design paper shows why algorithmic context can matter more than vague domain prompting when LLMs are used inside constrained optimization workflows.

February 2, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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Ask Once, Query Right: Why Enterprise AI Still Gets Databases Wrong

A mechanism-first reading of why enterprise database routing fails when it relies on embeddings or prompt-only LLM reranking, and why schema coverage plus connectivity checks matter.

February 2, 2026 · 21 min · Zelina
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GAVEL: When AI Safety Grows a Rulebook

A mechanism-first reading of GAVEL, a rule-based activation monitoring framework that turns model-internal signals into auditable AI governance logic.

February 2, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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Glue, Not Chains: Teaching AI to Degrade Amyloid-β the Hard Way

A mechanism-first reading of an AI molecular-glue pipeline for targeting amyloid-β42, and why its business value is disciplined triage rather than instant drug discovery.

February 2, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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Grading the Doctor: How Health-SCORE Scales Judgment in Medical AI

Health-SCORE shows how reusable, adaptive rubrics can turn expert medical judgment into a scalable control layer for healthcare LLMs.

February 2, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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Routing the Brain: Why Smarter LLM Orchestration Beats Bigger Models

A mechanism-first reading of CASTER, a context-aware router that cuts multi-agent LLM costs by deciding when expensive reasoning is actually needed.

February 2, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina
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Seeing Is Thinking: When Images Do the Reasoning

A mechanism-first reading of why visual generation helps reasoning only when the task needs a visual world model, not whenever a model can draw.

February 2, 2026 · 20 min · Zelina
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When Benchmarks Forget What They Learned

A practical reading of memorization-heavy evaluation: why models that remember too well can still be risky, and why controllable forgetting may need to be designed into training itself.

February 2, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina