Reasoning That Knows When to Shut Up
Epistemic fidgeting, metacognitive failure in silicon, and why the Qualcomm paper on edge reasoning matters more than its benchmark tables suggest.
Building at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, and technology.
Blog, portfolio, and general musings of Dr Gareth Roberts.
The Smuggled Ideas
Four papers that quietly crossed the AI–cognition border — and what got lost in transit.
Vibe Coding in Regulated Production
Ship Like a Maniac, But Bring Receipts
The Score Went Up. The Model Didn't.
LLM benchmarks are a best guess at genuine model capability
The Context Wars
The quiet discipline that will determine whether AI tells the truth.
The Game Theory of AI Safety Talk
Why what labs say about safety is a strategic signal, not a statement of values — and what that means for regulation.
What Neuroscience Knows That AI Ignores
Why the next leap in artificial intelligence will come from structure, not scale — and why a century of brain science has already drawn the blueprint.
Continuous Thought Machines? Giving Neural Networks Time to Think
Time as the medium in which computation unfolds, measured and synchronised at the level of individual neurons.
The AI Alignment Paradox: When Making AI Safe Hands Adversaries the Keys
In conventional security, hardening a system makes it harder to attack. You patch vulnerabilities, reduce attack surface, and defence moves in lockstep with robustness. AI alignment breaks this assumption.
Text Becomes a Syscall: How OpenClaw and Moltbook Turned the Internet into an Operating System
Late January 2026 will be remembered as the week a lobster meme accidentally taught the entire technology industry a serious idea.
Architecture Wars: How Physics Shapes AI Strategy
The pursuit of AI supremacy has reached an inflection point where fundamental physics, rather than algorithmic ingenuity alone, dictates competitive advantage.