🔥 Summary: The Self-Tuning Imperative

“We’re drowning in models but starved for wisdom.” Traditional AI stacks:

• Require constant manual tuning
• Suffer from version lock-in
• Can’t explain their confidence

What if your AI system could learn which models to trust and when without your help?

In this post, we’ll show you a practical, working strategy for building self-tuning AI not theoretical, not hand-wavy, but a real system you can build today using modular components and a few powerful insights.

🔍 Summary: Building the Engine of Understanding

This is not a finished story. It’s the beginning of one and likely the most ambitious post we’ve written yet.

We’re venturing into new ground: designing epistemic engines modular, evolving AI systems that don’t just respond to prompts, but build understanding, accumulate beliefs, and refine themselves through In-Context Learning.

In this series, we’ll construct a self-contained system separate from our core framework Stephanie that runs its own pipelines, evaluates its own beliefs, and continuously improves through repeated encounters with new data. Its core memory will be made of cartridges: scored, structured markdown artifacts distilled from documents, papers, and the web. These cartridges form a kind of belief substrate that guides the system’s judgments.

🤖 The Static AI Trap

Today’s AI systems are frozen in time: trained once, deployed forever. Yet the real world never stops evolving. Goals shift overnight. New research upends old truths. Context transforms without warning.

What if your AI could wake up?

In this post, we engineer an intelligence that teaches itself a system that continuously learns from the web, audits its own judgments, and retrains itself when confidence wavers.

🧪 Summary

As AI developers, we often face the tradeoff between intelligence and accessibility. Powerful language models like Qwen3 run beautifully on servers but what about on the edge? On devices like Raspberry Pi or old Android phones, we’re limited to small models. The question we asked was simple:

Can we teach a small model to behave like a large one without retraining it from scratch using only its outputs and embeddings?

This is a summary of the second chapter of a book I wrote:

Agent Architectures: Advanced Strategies for Intelligent LLM Systems

🤖 Chapter 2 : How to Think With AI Agents

Agents aren’t just tools they’re thinking partners. This post explores the core mindset shifts, methodologies, and feedback loops that define how to work with intelligent systems.

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🌊 Five Core Shifts in the AI–Human Paradigm

Before diving into methods, we need to understand the big changes redefining how we work with AI:

How to design a pipeline that turns vague goals into smart prompts

🧪 Summary

Why spend hours engineering prompts when AI can optimize its own instructions. This blog post introduces a novel approach toward creating a self-improving AI by treating prompts as programs. Traditional AI systems often rely on static instructions rigid and limited in adaptability. Here, we present a different perspective: viewing the Large Language Model (LLM) as a prompt compiler capable of dynamically transforming raw instructions into optimized prompts through iterative cycles of decomposition, evaluation, and intelligent reassembly.

This is a summary of the first chapter of a book I wrote:

Agent Architectures: Advanced Strategies for Intelligent LLM Systems

🚀 Introduction to LLM Agents

🤖 What is an LLM Agent?

An LLM agent is an intelligent software system built around a large language model (LLM). Unlike traditional LLMs, these agents don’t merely respond to prompts they actively reason, maintain context, and interact dynamically with external tools and environments. This autonomy enables them to manage complex workflows independently.

How a self-evolving AI learns to reflect, score, and rewrite its own reasoning

🧪 Summary

What if an AI could think not just solve problems, but reevaluate its beliefs in the face of new information?

In this post, we introduce a system that does exactly that. At the core of our pipeline is a lightweight scoring model called MR.Q, responsible for evaluating ideas and choosing the best ones. But when it encounters a new domain, a new goal, or a shift in task format, it doesn’t freeze it adapts.

📖 Summary

Imagine drowning in a sea of research papers, each holding a fragment of the knowledge you need for your next breakthrough. How does an AI system, striving for self-improvement, navigate this information overload to find precisely what it needs? This is the core challenge our Document Intelligence pipeline addresses, transforming chaotic documents into organized, searchable knowledge.

In this post we combine insights from Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers and Domain2Vec: Vectorizing Datasets to Find the Optimal Data Mixture without Training to build an AI document profiler that transforms unstructured papers into structured, searchable knowledge graphs.

📖 Summary

In this post, we introduce the LATSAgent, an implementation of LATS: Language Agent Tree Search Unifies Reasoning.. within the co_ai framework. Unlike prior agents that followed a single reasoning chain, this agent explores multiple reasoning paths in parallel, evaluates them using multidimensional scoring, and learns symbolic refinements over time. This is our most complete integration yet of search, simulation, scoring, and symbolic tuning bringing together all of our previous work on sharpening, pipeline reflection, and symbolic rules into a unified, intelligent reasoning loop.