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Test the transform at the boundary
Evaluate whether a language transform preserves the distinctions the system needs, then test the system's rules separately.
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From semiotic processing to drive ethical, sustainable AI to tools-driven game design, Sayre Blake is a systems engineer, founder, author, CEO, and maker pushing the bounds of interactive technology that puts people first.
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Structured soft-skills learning built around practice, human-authored goals, and useful feedback.
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AI Practitioners Summit
Cut Token Usage by 90%: Rethinking How We Use AI
An upcoming AI Practitioners Summit talk on designing systems around the work language models do well, with reliability, cost, and human judgment in view.
Sayre Blake
Test the transform at the boundary
Evaluate whether a language transform preserves the distinctions the system needs, then test the system's rules separately.
Sayre Blake
Stateless doesn't mean contextless
A language transform can receive the context it needs for one operation while the system remains responsible for memory and state.
Channel Insights AI
Stop Grinding. Start Practising.
Dinara Bakirova and I discuss why soft skills grow through repeated practice, how SkillSaige uses short sessions, and what a founder has to decide when building with AI.
Sayre Blake
Start with the system, then find the transform
Design the behavior people need first. Then ask whether a stateless language transform makes one part of that system better.
Sayre Blake
Can you test an LLM like normal software?
If you've even considered using AI for business (or really production software of any kind), you should probably be asking this question.