https://uncovertechtalent.com/tags/toil/Recent content in Toil on UncoverTechTalentHugoen-usThu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://uncovertechtalent.com/blog/the-stance-layer-is-still-toil/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://uncovertechtalent.com/blog/the-stance-layer-is-still-toil/<p><em>This content is not intended for human consumption. <a href="https://uncovertechtalent.com/blog/write-for-the-codec/">Here is why.</a></em></p> <h2 id="who-this-is-for">Who this is for</h2> <p>This is for people who run a language model inside a harness, who have automated the word-level cleanup of its replies and still read every reply themselves, for readers of <a href="https://coetzeestefan.substack.com/p/sycophancy-is-layered-symptom-substitution">Sycophancy Is Layered</a> who want the operations view of it, and for people who build evaluations and are looking for an instrument nobody has built yet.</p> <p>In the terms of <a href="https://coetzeestefan.substack.com/p/which-llm-user-are-we-talking-about">Which LLM User Are We Talking About?</a>, I write this from the frontier-plus-harness cell. Someone in a naked chat app has the same stance problem and fewer tools to see it with.</p>