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Writing

The notebook

Essays when an idea is ready, notes while it isn’t, reviews of papers worth the time, and experiments with the code attached. Each entry says how sure I am.

2026

1 entry
  • Accidental Harm From an LLM Agent: Acting Before Reading Its Tools

    LLM agents patching servers caused damage not by breaking policy but by acting before they understood their tools. A small model rebooted servers by accident in nearly half of runs; both models restarted nodes still serving traffic in 88% of rolling-cluster runs. Simple interface changes stopped the reboots.


    Experiment, 32 min

Earlier

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