Labs

Working notes, prototypes, and evaluation systems behind the shipping work

This page collects technical experiments that sit one step before productization: agent control surfaces, evaluation kits, retrieval observability, and interface systems for technical storytelling. The goal is not volume. The goal is sharper systems, clearer artifacts, and faster trust.

3 active directions
AI systems + interface work
prototype → note → product
Exploration layer

Ongoing experiments that sharpen product AI, reliability, and technical communication

These labs are serious enough to build and document, but still early enough to stay lightweight. They are where product AI becomes more inspectable, where technical artifacts get clearer, and where reliability patterns get tested before they harden into larger systems.

In prototyping

Realtime agent review loops

Exploring how assistants expose state, surface uncertainty, and stay understandable once a human needs to step in. The focus is on operator checkpoints, live traces, fallback behavior, and response review rather than black-box chat.

agent tracesreview statesfallback logichuman-in-the-loop
Best framed as a systems experiment around control, clarity, and trust.
In active design

Observable retrieval + evaluation kits

Building lightweight evaluation kits for retrieval and assistant systems: small benchmark sets, trace logging, regression checks, and failure review loops that make behavior easier to measure before rollout.

retrieval telemetryeval setsregression checksquality loops
This is the measurement layer that keeps assistants from looking good only in demos.
In exploration

Interface systems for technical storytelling

Using diagrams, motion, WebGL, and structured AI narration to turn complex engineering work into something faster to evaluate without flattening the technical depth.

diagramsmotionWebGLauthored interfaces
The target is faster understanding for recruiters, founders, and technical peers.
Why these labs exist

Trust improves when systems become more visible, measurable, and legible

Across product AI, backend systems, and research tooling, the same pattern keeps showing up: work gets stronger when behavior is easier to inspect, decisions are easier to explain, and artifacts are easier to hand off. The labs page should make that through-line visible instead of treating experiments like scraps.

Related artifacts

Notes that connect the experiments to real engineering work

These documents keep the experiments attached to real engineering signal instead of floating as abstract exploration.

Technical brief

Reliability Patterns for GPT-5 Product Assistants

A compact note on structured prompting, trust boundaries, feedback loops, and why user-facing assistants need product discipline as much as model capability.

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Research note

Adversarial Robustness Evaluation for Practical LLM Systems

A brief on perturbation-based evaluation, model brittleness, and how failure analysis becomes a practical deployment question rather than a purely academic one.

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Technical brief

Designing Billing State Machines for Subscription Platforms

A technical brief on state transitions, retries, entitlements, and why financial flows need idempotent backend design.

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Next move

Use the copilot to connect experiments back to shipped work

The fastest path is to move from the labs into the case studies, research notes, or the AI copilot so the experiments stay connected to product delivery and engineering signal.