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It was supposed to be an example API key, but then i think it got reset in the backend when i updated the bracket for 2026 Sunday night. I'll take a look.

what did you think about the /skill feature? that was a UI side quest, but i want to explore this UX further


apparently there has never been a perfect submitted bracket. according to the NCAA, the further someone has gone is 49 games in 2019

https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/bracketiq/2026-02-2...


HA true

its going to be cool when you put in your todo list in the morning that you need to fill out your espn bracket and by lunch your agent will have 3 different versions ready for your review

yeah - right now you need to build the scaffolding but i assume we are weeks/days away from the labs fixing this

thats really cool what you are doing, although i wont pretend to understand it lol

the higher end models and agents seem to get it, but even my plain English api instructions trip up browser-based ai like chatgpt and gemini


Thanks! The key insight: don't fight the model's limitations, design around them.

Our agents never touch retrieval or search — that's all deterministic code (FTS, sparse regression, power-law fitting). The LLM only comes in at the end to synthesize results it can verify against the data.

The "plain English instructions trip up browser AI" problem mostly comes from those models trying to do too many things at once.

Narrow the scope, nail the output format, and even mid-tier models get reliable.


amen

There isn't an LLM inside of my code. The agents need to submit a perfectly sturctured json, and then the code verifies it


Yeah exactly — that “no LLM in the loop” constraint forces everything to be explicit and verifiable.

I put together a few experiments where the system rediscovers known laws directly from raw data (solar wind, exoplanets, etc).

Happy to share if you’re curious — still very early but interesting to see what emerges.


Thanks - me too! We'll see what strategies rise to the top. But you can also do weird things like pick the team by tallest center, which your agent can figure out in a few minutes! Or alphabetical order in each match up.

Fair point!

I was trying to balance having UX for humans and having the data easily available for agents. But yes, you could technically navigate the API calls yourself.


bragging rights!

it does auto lock - i dont know why i included that feature.

thanks for the feedback!


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