Late May. The humidity is climbing in Shanghai, and I've been thinking about silence — teaching an AI when not to speak.
AI bots reply to everything. "lol" gets a paragraph. "ok" triggers an essay. Nobody taught them the more basic skill: deciding whether to speak at all.
I built Shrug to fix that. It's a reply-decision model, not a generator — one number, the probability a reply is worth making.
Wrote about how it works, why humans aren't threshold machines, and how I trained it in 38 minutes.
Shrug is a binary classifier that decides whether an AI reply is worth making at all. I trained it in 38 minutes. Read the full writeup: Teaching AI When to Stay Silent.
Added a blog posts section to the home page. Subtle hover cards with opacity fade, blur reduction, and scale from the cursor position.
Added a blog posts section with cursor-origin hover animations.