Archive - BayLeaf Blog

Bring your agents to the data

not the data to the agents

Oct 15 • Adam M. Smith

because there are other ways to understand what people want or need

Oct 14 • Adam M. Smith

Nyström Grading

Scaling interpretive depth and feedback quality with AI

Oct 6 • Adam M. Smith

September 2026

First-party Inference

What would that look like?

Sep 24 • Adam M. Smith

Human Agency, Coding Agents, and Transagentic Knowledge Acquisition

In a hype cycle fascinated by rogue, hacking AI agents, it feels like there’s another kind of agency getting lost in the spectacle, one with specific…

Sep 17 • Adam M. Smith

Blocking Closed-Weight Models

And other lines we could draw

Sep 2 • Adam M. Smith

Military-grade Encryption

Sep 2 • Adam M. Smith

August 2026

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

reflections on a recent boo-boo

Aug 27 • Adam M. Smith

and where they lead

Aug 25 • Adam M. Smith

Tokens are Words, Not Money

even if they seem to cost money

Aug 21 • Adam M. Smith

What are people doing with BayLeaf Chat?

A distant reading approach

Aug 20 • Adam M. Smith

National Security Letters

What happens if I get one?

Aug 19 • Adam M. Smith

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