Tuning the Stochastic Machine: A Systems Engineer's Operating Model for Human-AI Engineering
When an expert corrects an LLM assistant's error, the correction usually dies with the session, and the error class returns. I argue this is an operations problem, not a tooling problem: mechanisms for persisting corrections exist and are shipping, but the discipline for governing them -- versioning with provenance, recurrence monitoring, counter-metrics, retirement of stale rules -- does not. Writing as a systems engineer of thirty years, I map the LLM stack onto the machines my profession already operates (frozen silicon, firmware, loadable modules, persistent configuration, volatile memory)
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Paper → model → repo connections mined from source citations (Tier-1 exact match).
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Every edge carries a method, confidence, and the source snippet that justified it — so bad links are debuggable.
- PossiblePossibly related (embedding) · 63%MemoryOps AI: governed memory runtime for LLM agents with deletion-leakage evals and context admission [P] →
- PossiblePossibly related (embedding) · 55%I built an open-source memory governance layer for AI assistants - looking for technical feedback [P] →
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- FuzzySimilar title/name (fuzzy) · 59%cobusgreyling/loop-engineering →
“Fuzzy title match (0.73): “Tuning the Stochastic Machine: A Systems Engineer's Operatin” ≈ “cobusgreyling/loop-engineering””
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“Fuzzy title match (0.73): “Tuning the Stochastic Machine: A Systems Engineer's Operatin” ≈ “NirDiamant/Prompt_Engineering””
- LinkedLinked via arxiv author · 85%George Andrikopoulos →
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