DMello Advisory

Research

Research: what the logs actually show

Short papers from my own practice. Each one makes one claim, shows the numbers behind it, and says what would change my mind. They are written for people who run AI-assisted work.

Same Harness, Different Animals

What 1,495 transcripts reveal about how AI models actually differ

Your Rules May Be Dead Weight

A personal AI harness with 100+ behavioral rules and zero measurements

The Press-Send Problem

AI made production nearly free. The last mile got more expensive.

Ten Thousand Prompts In

Working with AI is not prompting. It is building an operating system, and the receipts are in the logs.

The Night Shift

72% of an AI operation ran unattended, and that was the easy part to explain

The Time Audit

You cannot state where your hours go. Your logs can.

Your Logs Are the Evidence and the Leak

The only honest dataset about your AI operation, and the two ways you are losing it

The Wrong Channel

If you measure AI corrections from chat text, you are measuring the minority signal

Done Is a Claim

In agentic work, completion is testimony, and testimony is the cheapest thing a model produces

Facts Are the Cheap Half of Memory

Every AI memory product stores what happened. None of them store what you corrected.

Stop Buying One Model for Everything

The corpus says model choice is procurement, not preference

Next step

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