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An LLM asked to do therapy will improvise a technique based on vibes, and prompts don't hold — a sufficiently emotional message talks the model past its instructions. So we moved the decision out of the model. Pure Python adjudicates every turn; the LLM only scores state and writes words. Here's the architecture, the measured latencies, and what the rigidity cost us.

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While chatting with Sarah Deaton about the formats agents could use to talk to each other, we got to questions that might sound obvious: why should machines (say, LLMs) communicate with each other like we do? Do they need all the rhetoric we carry around? Or could they get by with a terser register, one that carries the same meaning but in far fewer tokens?

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Small, practical fixes for everyday software. Git is the first workaround.

Supreme Court questions CBSE's classification of English as 'non-native' in three-language scheme, suggesting it could be indigenous.

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Data supporting claims that Palantir’s technology has improved services for NHS patients is riddled with errors, several hospital trusts have admitted.

"If you put the Russian authorities in charge of a desert, a sand shortage would break out — and they'd have to import sand from abroad." That's one of the most upvoted comments we found this June, as we monitored thousands of Russian social media groups and communities. Difficult not to agree, we must say — because this June, Russia, of all countries, ran short on gasoline. Throughout the month, Ukraine actively struck Russian oil refineries, fuel depots, and other oil infrastructure faciliti

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