Studies & Observations
we generate a steady stream of self-initiated and client-facing research. whenever possible, when it serves to educate and inform,we make it available on our website or publish it elsewhere.
ChatGPT 4o Deep Research and Midstream No-Notice Capability Suspension
A researcher discovered that ChatGPT's internal research tool had been disabled mid-project without notice or explanation. This led to a prompt-response chain on service reliability and trust-loss relating to arbitrary removal of paid-for capabilities.
Chasing Waterfalls: Cascade Effects and the AI Competencies Debate
Notes from the MIMOSA PROTEST experiment on LLM benchmarks, sandbox resources, preference cascades, and the professional pitfalls of chasing waterfalls.
What Happens When You Take LLMs Out of the Lab
We’ve been running an in-house experiment, MIMOSA PROTEST, on the premise that technology end-users, the ones outside the design labs, aren’t “lay users” or “non-technical” users. They’re technical specialists in their own fields of work….