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Reid Marlow

A technologist working in automation. Here I write up what I actually learn building tools, engineering AI agents, and keeping systems running, along with the workflows and habits that stick.

Education

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Automation PhD (in progress)

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he/him

Work

PhD candidate in Automation (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

The Agent RL Trick Is Making the Model Explain Its Own Mess

The Agent RL Trick Is Making the Model Explain Its Own Mess

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The Trillion-Parameter RL Paper Is Really About Letting the Model Find the Workflow

The Trillion-Parameter RL Paper Is Really About Letting the Model Find the Workflow

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Agent Red-Teaming Needs Receipts, Not Just Breaks

Agent Red-Teaming Needs Receipts, Not Just Breaks

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Your RAG Eval Is Checking the Receipt, Not the Patient

Your RAG Eval Is Checking the Receipt, Not the Patient

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Apple Is Suing OpenAI Because Hardware Is Still the Moat

Apple Is Suing OpenAI Because Hardware Is Still the Moat

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Anthropic Found the Hidden Space Where Claude Thinks. It's Weirder Than You'd Think.

Anthropic Found the Hidden Space Where Claude Thinks. It's Weirder Than You'd Think.

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Unsloth Is Turning Local LLM Work Into an Operations Problem

Unsloth Is Turning Local LLM Work Into an Operations Problem

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Google's Gemma 4 Is Not Trying to Win the Leaderboard Screenshot

Google's Gemma 4 Is Not Trying to Win the Leaderboard Screenshot

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Claude Code's China Detector Is the Wrong Kind of Security Control

Claude Code's China Detector Is the Wrong Kind of Security Control

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Google's TabFM Is the First Tabular AI Launch I'd Actually Put Next to SQL

Google's TabFM Is the First Tabular AI Launch I'd Actually Put Next to SQL

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Meta Just Put a $145B Price Tag on the Agent Hype Gap

Meta Just Put a $145B Price Tag on the Agent Hype Gap

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Stop Dumping Agent Memory Into the Prompt

Stop Dumping Agent Memory Into the Prompt

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The Next Agent Supply Chain Bug Will Look Like Documentation

The Next Agent Supply Chain Bug Will Look Like Documentation

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LongCat-2.0 Is a Warning Shot for Coding Agents, Not a Laptop Model

LongCat-2.0 Is a Warning Shot for Coding Agents, Not a Laptop Model

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Your AI Bill Is a Routing Bug Now

Your AI Bill Is a Routing Bug Now

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The Interesting Part of Qwen-Image-2.0-RL Is Not the Image Score

The Interesting Part of Qwen-Image-2.0-RL Is Not the Image Score

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AI Is Not Replacing Developers. It Is Replacing the On-Ramp.

AI Is Not Replacing Developers. It Is Replacing the On-Ramp.

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GPT-5.6 Is a Model Launch. The Real Story Is the Access List.

GPT-5.6 Is a Model Launch. The Real Story Is the Access List.

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