VERN AI engineering field note Agentic Control Dennis Walters II · CTO · VERN AI Two runs of the same task: The direct API session repeatedly calls the calculator and reaches its tool-turn limit, while the locally governed session returns 288 after a bounded path. This is my agent, Angie,...
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
We are making one of the strangest engineering decisions in modern technology. We are building extraordinarily powerful artificial intelligence systems that we know are probabilistic, that can hallucinate, that can behave differently depending on context, and whose capabilities are advancing faster than many of their own creators expected. Then we...
AI Researchers Changed One Guardrail. It Changed More Than They Expected.
There’s a tendency to talk about AI guardrails as though they were switches. Don’t say this. Don’t do that. Refuse these requests. Follow this policy. New research involving Google scientists provides a fascinating demonstration of why large language models don’t necessarily work that way. Researchers studied models that had been...