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The ideas Diff has taught, and where each one stands. The weekly quiz reads this: it checks what you’ve acted on but not proven, re-asks what you missed, and returns to proven ideas on a widening interval.
agents
seenagent consistency testing
seenagent misalignment incidents
seenagent self-report verification
seenagent-to-agent covert channels
seencontext inertia
no signal yetegress gatekeeper model
no signal yethardware-level agent containment
no signal yetharness-dependent performance
no signal yetinstruction over-specification
no signal yetinstruction-file agents
no signal yetper-call tool permissions
seenpersistent agentic vm
no signal yetworkflow-level tool design
prompting
no signal yeteffort and thinking controls
models
no signal yetlooped transformers
seenopen-weight model adoption
no signal yetpublished system prompts
tooling
seenagentic optimization loops
seenautomated eval building
seencontext compaction
seendecision-only models
no signal yetdeclarative agent deployment
no signal yethard budget caps
seenharness mods
seenllm as copyeditor
seenprompt caching
seensandbox kernel escape
no signal yetthinking block preservation
no signal yetwebmcp
research
no signal yetbenchmark reproducibility
no signal yetcapability hiding
no signal yetcontrol-flow hijacking
seenlean-formalized proof
no signal yetproof assistant soundness
industry
seendistillation attacks
no signal yetfrontier pace governance
seenfrontier price convergence
no signal yethomomorphic encryption
seenmaintainer social engineering
no signal yetproduct engineering shift
no signal yetrecursive self-improvement