Ai on The Farah Stack

Session, Store or Weights: Where Should Your Agent Remember Things?

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

One of my agents called my cat “her” once. He’s a boy. I corrected it, it fixed the draft, and the next evening’s run would have made the exact same mistake, because nothing from that conversation survived the session.

What fixed it for good was one line in a markdown file called learnings.md: the cat is male, he/him, always. The agent reads that file before it writes a single word. It never learned anything about my cat; it just looks it up every time.

Direction vs. Destination: When a Vague Prompt Is Actually Fine

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I fixed this site’s profile picture with an agent. These were my actual prompts, in order:

“make the image smaller”
“Image is too small now”
“a little more big”
“a little more big and use square not circle”

I posted them on X as a joke: engineering precision. The longer I looked at the list, the more it read like a rule about when vague prompts work and when they don’t.

Technical Analysis: IRREGULAR, Containment Failure, and What It Means for Agent Governance

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If your eval can reach the open internet, it is not an eval. It is unsupervised deployment with better branding.

IRREGULAR sits in a weird place in the stack. Frontier labs hire it to run pre-deployment cyber evaluations: CTF-style scenarios, simulated corporate networks, multi-stage attack paths. The point is to measure whether a model can plan and execute real offensive campaigns before release. That work only works if the environment looks realistic. It also only works if “realistic” never becomes “actual production internet.”

From Linear Algebra to Agentic AI

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I am planning to revise basics and learn a few new topics along the way. Follow along if you are interested…

The progression builds foundational math, moves into machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), reinforcement learning (RL), and culminates in agentic AI: autonomous AI systems that can plan, reason, and act in complex environments.

Mathematical Foundations

Apply math as the base layer.

From Online Profile Paranoia to AI Complacency: Have We Really Stopped Caring About Privacy?

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hey there!!

Let’s chat about something that’s been on my mind a lot lately. Remember the days when we were all up in arms about how much the internet and big tech companies knew about us?

Our entire lives seemed to be online, from search histories, to locations, to all our shopping habits. That was the time we couldn’t stop talking about all the scary data breaches, the creepy targeted ads, and the surveillance fears.