AI Systems
Writing filed under AI Systems.
Smaller models belong in the architecture
Ranking shows up everywhere
Ranking shows up in recommendations, retrieval, alerts, model routing, and engineering workflows.
Threat analytics is time series work too
Security signals often come down to timing, baselines, drift, and knowing when a pattern changed.
o3 and o4-mini made routing harder to dodge
The o-series releases made the cheap, fast, smart tradeoff harder to avoid and better to name.
Claude 3.7 made thinking a product control
Local models are part of the platform
Reasoning models changed where latency belongs
The o1 preview made it easier to talk about spending extra time on hard steps instead of every step.