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Interactive explainers

Many of the hardest ideas in production AI are about how several parts work together over time. These short animations and simulators show the order, the timing, and what breaks when a layer is missing. Each one has a text version.

Animation · about 42 s · 2 versions

Autonomy is earned with evidence

Watch an AI helper earn freedom one level at a time, and lose it when an important test fails. Four tests run one after another, then a gate decides. One failed critical test means no, whatever the other marks say.

Animation · about 37 s · 2 versions

One question, many safety layers

Follow one question through every step a careful AI assistant takes before it answers: who is asking, a safety check, getting ready, finding the right pages, writing a draft, checking it, asking a person's OK, doing the job safely, replying, and keeping a record. Then see what goes wrong when steps are missing.

Interactive demo · about 4 minutes · sample numbers

Bakery AI Helper

Watch an AI helper look into a slow bakery web page, then see what it costs and why the cheapest model is not always the cheapest. Made-up sample numbers.

Interactive simulator · inside the caching article

Prompt cache simulator

Change the prefix size, the gap between requests and the cache lifetime, and see which requests hit the cache and what it does to cost.

Examples are invented and illustrative. They describe no particular company, product or customer. Disclaimers