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    2026

      Why Steering Works – The Theory Beneath X Engineering for AI Agents

      July 26, 2026

      A two-basin cost landscape with an unsteered trajectory settling in a local minimum and a steered trajectory reaching the intended minimum. A two-basin cost landscape with an unsteered trajectory settling in a local minimum and a steered trajectory reaching the intended minimum.

      An agent run is stochastic gradient descent over solution space, and steering is how the true objective enters the loop. An optimization view and a Bayesian view that ground the industry ladder — prompt, context, harness, loop engineering — in foundation theory, and explain when a big model steering a small one beats distillation, and when it does not.

      Optimizing Transformer Model Serving Parameters – An Apple Silicon GPU Case Study

      July 11, 2026

      A GPU occupancy timeline showing chat decode collapsing from 65 to 0.67 tokens per second while benchmark prefill chunks occupy the GPU. A GPU occupancy timeline showing chat decode collapsing from 65 to 0.67 tokens per second while benchmark prefill chunks occupy the GPU.

      One MacBook Pro M4 Max, an open-source MoE, and a hands-on exercise in optimizing it for inference: why the thing that collapses LLM throughput by 100× is prefill, not decode, and the two prefill-side fixes that got it back.

      Collection Autofill at Scale

      May 28, 2026

      An Instill AI Collection mid-autofill, every cell processing.

      A design walkthrough of how Collection Autofill — a spreadsheet of AI-computed cells — stays fast, fair, and observable from a hundred rows to ten million.

    2025

      Reimagine Unstructured Data ETL

      February 14, 2025

      Imagine a computer system that interprets any physical signal and intelligently responds to any language instruction.

      Generative AI is revolutionizing software—how does it transform the way we utilize unstructured data like text, images, and videos?

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