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Notes on agents, evals and language models, mostly written to figure out what I think. 5 so far.
- Two agents, one owner
The agent economy needs a buyer's side, and someone independent to check that it exists.
- Most people don't use AI the way we do
My day runs on agents. For most people, AI is still a box you type a question into, and that gap is a product problem, not a user problem.
- Sovereign AI is not a data center
The sovereignty that matters is a refusal, and Arabic is where you can see it break.
- Ask in Egyptian, get answered in MSA
I asked four open models the same 200 questions in English, MSA, Egyptian and Levantine, then asked them for everyday help in four dialects. They understand less in dialect, and they almost never answer in one.
- The model isn't the moat
Open weights caught up with closed ones in about a year. When anyone can run a good model, the advantage moves to the data, the evals and the loop between them.