← The Signal№ 183 · AI Systems · December 23, 2025 · 1 min read
Most people think AI progress
Most people think AI progress is still about bigger models and better data. The real shift is happening after training — at inference time. Models now learn from context, leak…
Most people think AI progress is still about bigger models and better data.
The real shift is happening after training — at inference time.
Models now learn from context, leak traits through shared weights, and get worse when forced to “think longer.”
Reasoning has become a scarce, schedulable resource, not free intelligence.
Structure beats raw IQ for agents.
Memory becomes state.
Alignment moves from policy to protocol.
The future stack isn’t AI on Web3 — it’s programmable intelligence, where learning, execution, and governance are verifiable.