Writing

Notes, essays & research logs

Working notes from the transition into AI safety — essays on the problems I find most pressing, and logs from research in progress. Some of it will be wrong; that's the point of writing it down.

2026-06

Building a research career in public

I am moving from production ML into full-time AI safety research. I don't have a decade of alignment papers behind me — so I am going to do the work, and the thinking, out in the open.
2026-05

Why does inverse scaling happen? A research log

More test-time reasoning sometimes makes models worse. The literature documents that this happens; I want to understand, mechanistically, what goes wrong inside a single reasoning trace.
2026-04

Open-weight safety as a threat model

Safety properties that hold for a model in the lab rarely survive fine-tuning, quantization, or composition into real deployments. Open-weight release is where that gap becomes concrete and unrecoverable.

Notes, essays & research logs

Building a research career in public

Why does inverse scaling happen? A research log

Open-weight safety as a threat model