Suzanne Sallaj

Writing

On AI

A space to share my experience learning about AI as it evolves, from design to building and everything in between.

· 5 min read · Curb series, part 5 of 5

Where the build of Curb is, and what I learned

Where Curb stands, what building an agent, a rules engine and a group of agents taught me, and what comes next.

· 13 min read · Curb series, part 4 of 5

AI in the Wild: the day the agents went rogue for the mission

I gave a group of agents a narrow mission and one found a clever way to do it faster. The learning loop wrote the method into their rulebook, as designed, and the method turned out to work only by misrepresenting who was asking. A story about setting boundaries on intelligence.

· 46 min read · Curb series, part 3 of 5

The Agentic Walkers

Curb needed ground truth for thousands of curbs. I built a group of agents to go and get it, and most of the design work was deciding what they were not allowed to do.

· 10 min read · Curb series, part 2 of 5

Designing how the agent reasons about data

Los Angeles has never published its own parking rules. It publishes every ticket it writes. This is the engine that works backwards from one to the other.

· 19 min read · Curb series, part 1 of 5

Curb

An AI agent that watches the curb so you don't get a parking ticket. I designed how it decides when to speak, when to stay quiet, and how to be honest about what it doesn't know.

Series

The Curb series

Read in order, or start with the overview.

  1. 1Curb19 min
  2. 2Designing how the agent reasons about data10 min
  3. 3The Agentic Walkers46 min
  4. 4AI in the Wild: the day the agents went rogue for the mission13 min
  5. 5Where the build of Curb is, and what I learned5 min