John Kinson

Writing on software, systems, and how things actually work.

Articles

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Apr 12, 2025

On Slowness

The case for doing less, more deliberately — and why the pressure to move fast is often a collective hallucination.

Analysis

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Mar 28, 2025

Benchmark Drift and the Problem with Static Evals

An empirical look at how model rankings shift across MMLU, HumanEval, and GPQA as capability frontiers move — and what this means for choosing models in production.

Projects

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Inference Tracer

Active

A lightweight tool for tracing and visualizing token-by-token generation across model runs. Useful for understanding where attention concentrates during reasoning chains.

Schema Drift Monitor

In progress

Watches production data pipelines for structural changes and surfaces diffs in a clean terminal UI before they propagate downstream.