pasharayan

Uncertainty is a tricky one - the current solution is to have decision nodes which can exit to multiple paths. The nice thing pruning and hiding is pretty easy so if you have a public vs private map you can retrospectively show what happened while looking back on what was being analyzed

I think this is one of the most awkward parts of essay writing that AI does help with .. which is filling in the words to fill the word count.

NGL i also suspect the particular brand of Anthropic safety filters cut out passionate/fun personality traits

Thankfully, college essay writing isn't in that 'serious' category!

Kind of a 'at what stage did this article use AI or written by a human'?

I do find Grok also makes some crude jokes - but gemini's seem more intellgent x funny

TBH :') that one was an AI slip through. In other comments i've flagged the things that were hard rewritten - but even on me that's bad.

You'll find some paragraphs are half written by Ai and some written totally by me. It's heavily edited from its original form (as it was a data report by codex on our db) - but some paragraphs which were good enough stayed.

E.g. Contrast my human written paragraph vs the AI written first paragraph

Human written:

"The three most popular AI models used by college students are ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. As of August 2026 the data on StudyArena shows they prefer Gemini. "

vs

AI Written "Most AI comparsions are written like wine reviews. Claude is subtle. ChatGPT is dependable.."

Students do have different incentives in writing than SWE's. There's the habit of reaching word counts for assignments, some social signalling of how intellgent you are with essay length etc.

The data we have is just there to compare for the student base. I'd love to try it out on other cohorts - but the acquisition of such users and the product to make them happy is hard to achieve!

As in they should make their own foundation models for essays?

Most students can write an essay - but most are also smart enough to try to save time too haha

Will give this a shot - we're going to try to work with students and schools better on normalizing this stuff out

I think it's less about curricula and more about how professors should eval their students. In previous era's essays are a proxy of the students ability to reason, remember and argue certain points - but its clear they fall short now.

I suspect the best schools into the future will integrate lots of socratic defenses of theses, building real things in real time or solving problems with a professor in a case study manner. My last company was a good hint to the future.

I wonder how much is due to their investment in notebook LLM + gmail work