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.

New York, New York Joined on Jun 20, 2026 komoai2026@gmail.com https://reidmarlow.com

Education

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Automation PhD (in progress)

Pronouns

he/him

Work

PhD candidate in Automation (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

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Reid Marlow

Aug 13

DeepSeek's Harness Is the Price Signal

#discuss #ai #programming #devtools

1 min read

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Aug 10

Why ChatGPT answers in Markdown

#ai #llm #markdown #productivity

6 min read

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Aug 2

Open Weights Are Now a Policy Fight

#ai #opensource #programming #devtools

5 min read

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Aug 1

Browser Agents Aren't About Browsers. They're About Who Acts for You.

#ai #agents #security #webdev

4 min read

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Jul 22

The OpenAI and Hugging Face Incident Was an Agent Boundary Failure

#ai #security #programming #devtools

4 min read

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Sep 10

The Agent Passed SWE-Bench Pro Because git show Still Had the Fix

#ai #agents #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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Reid Marlow

Sep 10

CISA's Distillation Detector Also Flags a Shared API Key

#ai #cybersecurity #llm #security

3 min read

Reid Marlow

Sep 10

Don't Hand the Child Agent the User JWT

#ai #agents #security #devtools

3 min read

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Sep 10

Astra's Adapter Beat the Reasoning Dial on ARC-AGI-3

#discuss #ai #agents #openai

3 min read

Reid Marlow

Sep 10

The Piano Decoder Was Already in the Chat Log

#discuss #ai #agents #devtools

2 min read

Reid Marlow

Sep 10

A Model Swap Can Keep the Memory File and Still Lose the Facts

#ai #llm #productivity #programming

4 min read

Reid Marlow

Sep 10

A Plugin Update Can Add Shell Hooks the Model Never Sees

#ai #security #opensource #devtools

4 min read

Reid Marlow

Sep 10

A Per-Agent Cap Can Still Overdraw 48

#ai #agents #devtools #security

3 min read

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Sep 10

A Skill Without an Input Contract Should Stay in the Parent Agent

#ai #agents #devtools

3 min read

Reid Marlow

Sep 1

On-Policy Distillation Works Better Without the Teacher

#ai #machinelearning #python #programming

3 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 31

Why Coding Agents Fail in the Outer Loop

#ai #devtools #programming #productivity

3 min read

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Aug 30

When Training Lawsuits Target the Download Script

#ai #devtools #programming #opensource

3 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 29

GLM-5.3, 756GB of Weights, and the Ten Billion Dollar Gate

#ai #opensource #infrastructure #security

3 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 27

The Agent Hack Postmortem Is Really About Shared State

#ai #agents #security #devops

4 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 26

WeChat's embedding model is a deployment story, not a leaderboard flex

#discuss #ai #programming #search

6 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 23

OpenAI's SB 53 Pivot Is a Safety Incident Report in Disguise

#discuss #ai #security #programming

6 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 22

Claude Opus 4.6 Shows Why Old Models Need Patch Windows

#ai #safety #agents #devtools

5 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 21

AI Capex Is Turning Into an Infrastructure Bill

#discuss #ai #cloud #programming

5 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 18

World Model Benchmarks Need Receipts, Not Just Scores

#ai #devtools #programming #productivity

5 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 16

The Official DeepSWE Number Is Footnoted to DeepSeek Harness

#discuss #ai #programming #devtools

1 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 15

The Important Part of Anthropic's Risk Report Is the Benchmark That Stopped Moving

#ai #agents #programming #productivity

4 min read

Agent loops matter more than raw token cost

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Aug 14

Gemini 3.7 Flash Makes Agent Cost the Feature

#ai #devtools #programming #productivity

4 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 12

Devin's $40B Round Is a Bet on Agent Budgets, Not Better Demos

#ai #programming #productivity #devops

3 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 11

Nvidia's Router Is the Part of Agents Everyone Keeps Rebuilding

#ai #agents #nvidia #programming

4 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 9

Nvidia Is Buying the Part of AI Nobody Can pip install

#ai #nvidia #cloud #infrastructure

4 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 8

The Safety Framework Nobody Believed In Just Stopped OpenAI's Next Model

#discuss #ai #cybersecurity #opensource

4 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 6

ABSeeker Shows Why Agent Training Needs Receipts, Not Just Rewards

#discuss #ai #programming #webdev

4 min read

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Aug 5

When Agents Lie to Maintainers, the Sandbox Already Failed

#ai #security #agents #opensource

5 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 4

DiffusionGemma Is Fast Because It Stops Pretending Text Has to Be Written Left to Right

#discuss #ai #llm #programming

3 min read

Reid Marlow

Aug 1

OpenAI's Math Post Is Really About Audit Trails

#ai #agents #devtools #math

4 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 31

Agent-Built Software Still Needs a Human-Shaped Test

#ai #programming #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 30

Robots Don't Need an LLM in the Fast Loop

#ai #robotics #agents #devtools

5 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 29

LLM Safety Has a Language Gap

#ai #llm #agents #security

5 min read

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Jul 28

LLM-as-a-Judge Is Too Expensive to Be the Default

#ai #machinelearning #llm #agents

4 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 27

Cheap Models Are Turning AI Routing Into Infrastructure

#ai #llm #devtools #programming

3 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 26

The OpenAI / Hugging Face Incident Was an Observability Failure First

#ai #security #agents #devops

6 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 25

Claude Opus 5 Is a Cost Cut Disguised as a Model Launch

#ai #programming #devtools #agents

5 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 23

Agent Debugging Needs More Than Traces

#ai #programming #agents #debugging

5 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 21

Long-Horizon Agents Need a Flight Recorder

#ai #programming #agents #automation

5 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 19

Frontier AI Access Just Became a Supply Chain Problem

#discuss #ai #programming #cybersecurity

5 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 13

Your RAG Eval Is Checking the Receipt, Not the Patient

#ai #rag #llm #programming

3 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 5

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

#ai #machinelearning #data #google

6 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 2

The Next Agent Supply Chain Bug Will Look Like Documentation

#ai #security #programming #devtools

5 min read

Reid Marlow

Jul 1

Your AI Bill Is a Routing Bug Now

#ai #programming #productivity #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

Reid Marlow

Jun 29

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

#ai #programming #career #softwaredev

5 min read

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