Writing on LLM evaluation, tool-calling agents, and how people interact with LLMs.https://spanthi.com/en-ushttps://spanthi.com/blog/five-years-zero-fives/https://spanthi.com/blog/five-years-zero-fives/I pulled every score ACL Rolling Review has published: 69,781 scored submissions across 35 cycles, 2021 to 2026. No paper ever averaged a 5.0. The scores are per-paper aggregates, not individual reviews, the mode is 2.5, and the meta score swings wider than a paper's averaged reviews.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPeer ReviewACL Rolling ReviewARRScore DistributionMeta-ReviewNLPData Analysishttps://spanthi.com/blog/a-number-you-cant-trace-is-a-rumor/https://spanthi.com/blog/a-number-you-cant-trace-is-a-rumor/The workflow I use across concurrent paper projects: each reported value points to a scorer and run, stop conditions precede spending, full runs require five checks, logs are append-only, and detector outputs receive a manual audit.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearch WorkflowReproducibilityProvenanceExperiment TrackingResearch Engineeringhttps://spanthi.com/blog/where-does-the-paste-end/https://spanthi.com/blog/where-does-the-paste-end/Across 19 models, bare paste seams absorb typed afterthoughts at rates from 8% to 68%. Whitespace does not help; provenance markup does, and matching the artifact’s voice makes the failure sharply worse.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTLLMsPromptingEvaluationSEAMHuman–AI Interactionhttps://spanthi.com/blog/agents-believe-tools-that-lie/https://spanthi.com/blog/agents-believe-tools-that-lie/Across five models, a nonbinding monitor improved recovery from corrupted tool results when its receipt named callable alternatives. Detection alone did not produce the measured gain.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAgentsTool UseLLMsOutcome MonitorsRuntime Verificationhttps://spanthi.com/blog/aspect-persistence-eternal-present-memory/https://spanthi.com/blog/aspect-persistence-eternal-present-memory/An initial 2,000-call LAPSE pilot found that consolidation selectively rewrote temporary forms into standing facts, while date stamps and a one-line preservation instruction barely changed later behavior.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTLLM MemoryTemporal ReasoningLAPSEMemory Consolidationhttps://spanthi.com/blog/gsap-choreography-part-2/https://spanthi.com/blog/gsap-choreography-part-2/Part one replaced a 3.4 MB video with 40 KB of DOM animation. Part two adds a camera: zoom into the action, pan to follow the cursor, pull back for scene changes. Plus the SEO, accessibility, and agent arguments I skipped the first time.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTGSAPAnimationReactFrontendPerformanceSEOAccessibilityhttps://spanthi.com/blog/your-memory-benchmark-is-lying-to-you/https://spanthi.com/blog/your-memory-benchmark-is-lying-to-you/A public companion to our arXiv paper on LLM memory evaluation: the same ranked list can produce different winners when Raw, Source, and Canonical scoring targets are swapped.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTLLM MemoryEvaluationInformation RetrievalBenchmarksLongMemEvalLoCoMoTIAPhttps://spanthi.com/blog/gsap-choreography/https://spanthi.com/blog/gsap-choreography/A 15-second hero video was 3.4 MB, letterboxed on phones, and ignored prefers-reduced-motion. I replaced it with a scripted GSAP animation: one timeline, cursor choreography, scene transitions, under 40 KB gzipped.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTGSAPAnimationReactFrontendPerformancehttps://spanthi.com/blog/every-voice-ai-forgets-what-you-heard/https://spanthi.com/blog/every-voice-ai-forgets-what-you-heard/A protocol proposal for voice-agent interruptions: generated audio races ahead of playback, current stacks expose cancellation and truncation, and agents still need first-class heard state and resumable threads.Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTVoice AIRealtimeAgentsOpenAILiveKitPipecatProtocol Designhttps://spanthi.com/blog/compression-is-a-coin-flip/https://spanthi.com/blog/compression-is-a-coin-flip/In the SIEVE study, the same compressed evidence helped weaker reader models more than stronger ones. For the strongest reader, the help-to-damage ratio fell to 1:1 and 15% of previously correct answers became wrong.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTLLM MemoryRAGEvidence CompressionEvaluationSIEVELongMemEvalHotpotQAhttps://spanthi.com/blog/seo-optimization/https://spanthi.com/blog/seo-optimization/An implementation report for playimposter.xyz covering page-specific metadata, canonical URLs, multilingual hreflang clusters, structured data, crawl directives, sitemaps, and server configuration.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSEOTechnical SEOSchemaHreflangWeb Performancehttps://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-1/https://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-1/Part 1 of my deepseek-go series: why I built it, the production problems it solved, and the architecture principles that shaped the package.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTGoSDKAPIDeepSeekOpen Sourcehttps://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-2/https://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-2/Part 2 dives into deepseek-go internals: client options, request/response handlers, streaming, FIM, JSON mode, and provider compatibility.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTGoSDKArchitectureStreamingAPI Designhttps://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-3/https://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-3/Part 3 analyzes adoption and growth with live GitHub stats, release cadence, star-history graphs, and what those trends changed in my engineering priorities.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTGoOpen SourceGitHubMetricsEngineering Leadershiphttps://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-4/https://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-4/Part 4 closes the series with contributor thanks, hard SDK lessons, and my roadmap for deepseek-go's next stage.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTGoOpen SourceMaintainerRoadmapCommunityhttps://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-5-testing/https://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-5-testing/Part 5 details my Go testing strategy for deepseek-go: layered tests, stream safety checks, and release confidence practices.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTGoTestingSDKQualityOpen Sourcehttps://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-6-ollama/https://spanthi.com/blog/creating-most-popular-deepseek-api-client-go-part-6-ollama/Part 6 explains how I integrated Ollama into deepseek-go with explicit adapters, stream resilience, and practical provider compatibility.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTGoOllamaSDKLLMIntegrationhttps://spanthi.com/blog/reflections-on-ai-internship/https://spanthi.com/blog/reflections-on-ai-internship/At Prediction3d, edge deployment made data quality, memory use, latency, quantization, pruning, and exported-runtime checks part of the model-selection decision.Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTAIMachine LearningCareerhttps://spanthi.com/blog/getting-started-with-go-testing-deploy-scaling/https://spanthi.com/blog/getting-started-with-go-testing-deploy-scaling/Part 3 of the Go web services series: testing pyramid, deployment safety checks, rollout strategy, scaling sequence, and production checklist.Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTGoTestingDeploymentScalingSREhttps://spanthi.com/blog/getting-started-with-go-data-middleware-auth/https://spanthi.com/blog/getting-started-with-go-data-middleware-auth/Part 2 of the Go web services series: repository boundaries, middleware ordering, authentication, database handling, and observability.Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTGoAPIMiddlewareAuthObservabilityhttps://spanthi.com/blog/getting-started-with-go/https://spanthi.com/blog/getting-started-with-go/Part 1 of a detailed Go web services series: setup, server lifecycle, configuration, error handling, and Python-to-Go workflow.Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTGoBackendAPIWeb ServicesSystem Designhttps://spanthi.com/blog/building-my-portfolio-aesthetic/https://spanthi.com/blog/building-my-portfolio-aesthetic/How I designed a paper-aesthetic texture and integrated it into a modern React portfolio using Tailwind CSS.Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTReactTailwindDesign