Cover image

Forecasting With a Spine: How Semantic Anchors Might Fix Time‑Series LLMs

A mechanism-first reading of STELLA, a time-series forecasting framework that gives LLMs structured semantic guidance instead of asking them to hallucinate order from raw numbers.

December 5, 2025 · 16 min · Zelina
Cover image

Grounded or Just Confident? What the AI Consumer Index Reveals About Frontier Models

ACE shows why consumer AI reliability depends less on fluent answers and more on hurdle checks, grounding discipline, and workflow-level evaluation.

December 5, 2025 · 18 min · Zelina
Cover image

Scale Fail: How Downsampling Becomes an Adversarial Backdoor for VLMs

A mechanism-first analysis of how adaptive visual prompt injection turns ordinary image resizing into a security boundary for multimodal AI systems.

December 5, 2025 · 13 min · Zelina
Cover image

Shift Happens: Detecting Behavioral Drift in Multi‑Agent Systems

A mechanism-first reading of TDKPS, a statistical framework for detecting behavioral drift in black-box multi-agent systems without pretending it can explain every cause.

December 5, 2025 · 16 min · Zelina
Cover image

Thinking in Branches: Why LLM Reasoning Needs an Algorithmic Theory

A mechanism-first reading of Algorithmic Thinking Theory and what it implies for designing enterprise AI workflows beyond best-of-k prompting.

December 5, 2025 · 14 min · Zelina
Cover image

Breaking Rules, Not Systems: How Penalties Make Autonomous Agents Behave

A case-first reading of how penalty-aware policy reasoning lets autonomous agents distinguish acceptable emergency exceptions from dangerous rule-breaking.

December 4, 2025 · 15 min · Zelina
Cover image

Heuristics, Meet Your Agents: How Role-Based LLMs Rewire Optimization

RoCo shows how role-specialized LLM agents can improve automatic heuristic design—but its business value lies in disciplined solver augmentation, not magic optimization.

December 4, 2025 · 17 min · Zelina
Cover image

Memory, Multiplied: Why LLM Agents Need More Than Bigger Brains

MemVerse shows why persistent AI agents need structured multimodal memory, fast distilled recall, and evidence-grounded retrieval—not just longer context windows.

December 4, 2025 · 18 min · Zelina
Cover image

Rule of Thumb, Meet Rule of Code: How DeepRule Rewrites Retail Optimization

DeepRule shows how LLMs can turn messy retail knowledge into auditable assortment and pricing rules, but the real lesson is the pipeline, not the model.

December 4, 2025 · 17 min · Zelina
Cover image

Stacking the Odds: Why Blocksworld Still Breaks Your Fancy LLM Agent

A practical reading of an MCP-integrated Blocksworld benchmark showing why planning, verification, execution, and replanning must be tested together before LLM agents touch real operations.

December 4, 2025 · 17 min · Zelina