Smart Brevity 5: Guarantees come from structure, not from asking nicely

Podcast: Smart Brevity · Jamiepluscoffee

Opublikowano: 2026-10-17

Guarantees come from structure, not from asking nicely; Waypoint-gated distillation: transfer only the RL shifts that early and late training agree on; Decision-native models: null-aware, order-proof, scalable, and cacheable by construction; Thinking inertia: no-think switches leak reasoning, so measure answer-only compliance; Demo versus delivery evals: held-out acceptance, business-uplift scoring, priced clarifying questions; User-modifiable harnesses: users edit the agent loop, subagents, and routing; Cache-aware economics: stable prefixes first, judge models by cost per completed task