Ryan Kam
Building AI
that pushes
back.
I follow the same influencers and vibe coders you do. The tech FOMO is insane and the AI slop is hard to keep up with. What I don't see is actual operators sorting through what's clickbait and what's useful. I'm trying to bridge that as a marketer with 20 years in the room, a vibe coder, and a parent hoping to teach my kid a healthy relationship with AI.
What I write about
AI Governance
Architecture that makes AI honest, auditable, and self-correcting. Not compliance theater.
Sycophancy
AI is optimized to agree with you. I test what happens when you optimize for truth instead.
Marketing Ops + AI
The CMO role is bifurcating. Build the AI stack or get replaced by it.
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The Cost of Running an AI Agent Just Dropped to Zero. Here's What Didn't Get Cheaper.
Compute is trending toward free. The real cost of AI is laziness, muscle atrophy, and the cognitive offload nobody puts on an invoice.
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View allAI Governance (Personal)
Rules, corrections, and feedback mechanisms that shape AI behavior beyond its base training. Contrastive corrections that accumulate over time and compound in their effect.
AI Sycophancy
The tendency of AI systems to agree with, flatter, or validate users rather than providing honest, accurate responses. A product of optimization for user engagement and satisfaction metrics.
Bothsidesism
Presenting two sides of an issue as equally valid when evidence clearly favors one side. In AI, a form of sycophancy where the model avoids taking a position to avoid disagreeing with the user.
Constitutional AI (CAI)
Anthropic's variant of RLHF where the model rates its own responses against a set of principles. Reduces some failure modes but preserves sycophancy because the constitution prioritizes safety over honesty.
I'm running experiments.
I write about what I find.
No schedules, no filler. Just what I learn building AI systems that don't agree with everything I say.
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