Michael Byrne builds quality AI systems and tools, and does deep ML research on various topics, for example, how models learn, remember, and can be read from the inside.https://michaelbyrne.dev/https://michaelbyrne.dev/projects/free-public-lessons/https://michaelbyrne.dev/projects/free-public-lessons/Free AI lessons, a new one every week. Each explains one idea about how AI works, with a video, code you can run and its sources, and is fact checked before release.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarkdownPythonGitHub Pageslearningai-assisted developmenthttps://michaelbyrne.dev/projects/specdec-sidechannels/https://michaelbyrne.dev/projects/specdec-sidechannels/Three research records on what a speculative decoding system gives away for free. The answers came back negative or narrow, against bars set in advance.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPythonnumpyPyTorchpytestClaude CodeGitHub Actionsevaluationpre-registrationhttps://michaelbyrne.dev/projects/free-public-tools/https://michaelbyrne.dev/projects/free-public-tools/Free tools for AI assistants and coding agents, a new one every week. Each started in my own work with AI and is tested before release.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTMarkdownJavaScriptGitHub Pagesai-assisted developmentdeveloper toolinghttps://michaelbyrne.dev/projects/role-aware-dashboard-toolkit/https://michaelbyrne.dev/projects/role-aware-dashboard-toolkit/Python building blocks for apps where people change settings, compare recorded runs and sign off decisions: role checks, saved profiles, audit history and a working business demo.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPythonStreamlitFastAPISQLitedeveloper toolingai-assisted developmenthttps://michaelbyrne.dev/notes/ai-memory-systems/https://michaelbyrne.dev/notes/ai-memory-systems/Most AI memory today is text, stored and searched. Two systems I built work that way; newer research suggests memory may move into the computation itself.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTai memoryai-assisted developmenthttps://michaelbyrne.dev/notes/from-music-to-ai/https://michaelbyrne.dev/notes/from-music-to-ai/I spent 13 years teaching and playing music before moving into AI. Why the switch makes sense to me: music is an arbitrary language, and that way of thinking transfers here.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://michaelbyrne.dev/notes/linear-probes/https://michaelbyrne.dev/notes/linear-probes/A classifier reads a model from the inside: what it can do, what it takes to trust one, and what a safety classifier taught me.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://michaelbyrne.dev/notes/shape-of-data/https://michaelbyrne.dev/notes/shape-of-data/Going back through every dataset I generated, the same lesson kept coming up: the shape of the data decides what can be learned from it, and what a test can show.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTtraining dataevaluationhttps://michaelbyrne.dev/notes/vibe-coder-to-engineer/https://michaelbyrne.dev/notes/vibe-coder-to-engineer/AI lowered the barrier to making software appear, not to understanding it. Seven habits, learned the hard way, for crossing from vibe coding to engineering.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-assisted developmentlearninghttps://michaelbyrne.dev/projects/espalier-harness/https://michaelbyrne.dev/projects/espalier-harness/A Claude Code harness that makes a planned, proven workflow the agent's default path, refuses its attempts to disable its own hooks, and treats CI as the only hard guarantee.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPythonClaude CodeGitHub Actionspytestdeveloper toolingai-assisted developmentagent control