Matthew Ritch

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I am a forward-deployed engineer at Ancera.
I am interested in calm solutions for noisy physical processes, like biology at scale.

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Slop on Sale
Continued attempts to understand and mitigate slop, this time with Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5 Mini
Can My Puzzle Write-ups 'Lift' Cheap LLMs?
Evaluating if my puzzle solutions help Haiku 4.5 and Sonnet 5 solve Jane Street puzzles.
"Please Remove All Mannered Prose" and Other LLM Incantations
Measuring how style prompts like "avoid mannered prose" shift a LLM's internal state and its outputs.
Atlanta radar loop