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· 13 min read · ai, llm, governance

What Brazil's AI bill (PL 2338) requires, bans, and still leaves open

The text the Senate approved in December 2024 classifies AI systems by use, bans some, requires documentation and impact assessments for high-risk ones, and puts the ANPD in charge of coordinating oversight. In the Chamber of Deputies, the high-risk list, copyright, and the size of the law are still in dispute.

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· 6 min read · ai, llm, evaluation

What a Forward Deployed Engineer and an Applied AI Engineer do

I read five postings open in September 2026 at Palantir, OpenAI, and Anthropic. They describe the same arc, from an open question to production adoption, and they ask for two deliverables: the customer's system and what it teaches the product back home.

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· 14 min read · ai, llm, agent

CLM decides fast when the options stay the same

CLM reads the situation and each option separately and picks the closest one. It is fast when the options repeat, and weak when the sentence needs nuance.

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· 9 min read · ai, llm, evaluation

Laya has open weights. You own the operations

Laya is a non-autoregressive decision model under Apache 2.0. It trades the convenience of a hosted API for control over running, evaluating, and specializing the model.

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· 8 min read · ai, llm, evaluation

Jev guarantees the shape, not the decision

Jev trades text generation for typed decisions with probabilities. The idea works when the answer space is closed, the question is narrow, and code stays in control.

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· 9 min read · ai, agent, software-engineering

The benchmark resets the repository. Your team does not

Coding agents look more capable when every task starts from a clean checkout. New benchmarks show the cost that appears when patches, decisions, and technical debt carry into the next job.