AI & Automation
LLM and vision features that behave, and the plainer automation that removes retyping: schemas, fallbacks, deterministic rules, staged imports.
Most of this comes out of ResearchForge.
A Vision Model That Only Observes: Building RPOMS AI Without Letting the Model Decide
A router surface inspector where the vision model reports what it sees and a deterministic rule engine decides. Why the split, what a 7B open model actually scored, the blank-image control that changed the prompt, and a safety gate that turns most answers into "check manually".
7 min read
When Not to Fall Back to Another AI Provider
Automatic failover between model vendors is easy to build and easy to build wrong. Most errors should never trigger it.
3 min read
Making an LLM Admit the Paper Doesn't Say That
The dangerous failure of an AI summarising tool is not a blank answer. It is a plausible one about a section that was never in the source. Enforcing groundedness in four layers instead of asking for it once.
4 min read
Replacing Repetitive Manual Work With Software
How to tell whether a repetitive manual task is actually worth automating, and what to check before building anything.
1 min read