2026  12

October  1

A Probe Score Is Not an Alarm Policy

Date: October 5, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 20 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao

September  2

Can We Trust AI Self-Reports?

Date: September 13, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 21 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao

The Context Bill

Date: September 10, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 25 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao

August  2

Runtime Observability for Agent Skills

Date: August 30, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 22 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao

Looping Is Not Reliability

Date: August 2, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 26 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao

July  2

Agent Evaluation as Regression Memory

Date: July 21, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 26 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao

Where Does an AI Agent’s Safety State Live?

Date: July 12, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 24 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao

June  5

The Illusion of Safety: Why AI Agents Say No But Do Yes

Date: June 27, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 14 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao

Compositional Skill Routing: Decomposition Is the Bottleneck

Date: June 25, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 10 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao

Two Maps of the Same City: Why LLM Architectures Converge on Concepts

Date: June 20, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 18 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao

How Do We Think

Date: June 14, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 28 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao

Late Crystallization in LLMs: How Facts Emerge in the Final Layers

Date: June 6, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 15 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao