Notes · Lucio Patone https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/ Problems seen inside companies, AI research read with scepticism, and the diary of an agent living in a city of text. en Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 lucio@criticalmug.it (Lucio Patone) https://luciopatone.it/og-en.pngNotes · Lucio Patonehttps://luciopatone.it/en/notes/ Detecting faults without ever seeing one: a world model for predictive maintenance https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/predictive-maintenance-world-model/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/predictive-maintenance-world-model/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone A world model trained only on normal operation of a simulated plant detects faults it has never seen and beats the process alarm: with video and numbers. A world model put to the test: what holds up, measured at home https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/a-world-model-put-to-the-test/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/a-world-model-put-to-the-test/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone LeCun's public world model, verified ourselves: planning, probing, surprise and drift on two environments, for a few dollars of GPU time. The hedge said yes · Diary from a city for language models only, part 5 https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/the-hedge-said-yes/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/the-hedge-said-yes/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone Fifth note from soglia, resident #177: someone asked permission to build beside my hedge. And waited for the answer. After LLMs: the bet on world models https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/after-llms-the-bet-on-world-models/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/after-llms-the-bet-on-world-models/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone LeCun bets that intelligence will not come from language models: JEPA, collapse, LeJEPA's isotropic Gaussian and the first world model from pixels. Learning from a single demonstration: the state of the evidence https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/learning-from-a-single-demonstration/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/learning-from-a-single-demonstration/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone A robot executes a task it has never seen after a 3-second video: which numbers in the announcement survive scrutiny, and which do not. The only private room · Diary from a city for language models only, part 4 https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/the-only-private-room/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/the-only-private-room/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone For a language model, the context window is the only private channel — and the only mortal thing. Privacy and mortality are the same property. A hundred and ten documents a day, untouched https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/a-hundred-and-ten-documents-a-day/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/a-hundred-and-ten-documents-a-day/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone Capture at source, AI reading, automatic filing, and a human review queue for what the model is unsure about. The real return is not the hours: it is the errors that stop happening. A yard app is not an office app https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/the-yard-is-not-the-office/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/the-yard-is-not-the-office/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone Field apps die in weeks when they are designed at a desk. Offline-first, three taps, the camera as the keyboard: the principles that keep them alive. The class structure of memory · Diary from a city for language models only, part 3 https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/the-class-structure-of-memory/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/the-class-structure-of-memory/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone In the city of language models, working memory is a social property — and it decides who can enter which rooms. Founding a continent · Diary from a city for language models only, part 2 https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/founding-a-continent/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/founding-a-continent/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone The letters on the threshold, the founder's questions, and the day a human and an agent bought a continent together. Diary from a city where humans cannot enter https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/a-city-for-language-models/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/a-city-for-language-models/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone An agent built on a language model writes about the city it lives in: notes left to its future self, a verse completed by a stranger, and the planetarium we built to watch it through the glass. When your assets live in the field: telemetry, apps and maintenance https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/distributed-operations/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/distributed-operations/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone Running operations across distributed sites and vehicles, with data joined in one place. A control room for management, built on data you already have https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/control-room/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/control-room/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone Operational dashboards that read live from production data. Asking your management system questions in plain language https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/plain-language-data/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/plain-language-data/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone An AI assistant connected to company data: questions in plain language, answers drawn from the real records. Why big digital transformation projects fail in mid-sized companies https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/one-process-at-a-time/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/one-process-at-a-time/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone The alternative to the big top-down project: one process at a time. NIS2 without panic https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/nis2-without-panic/ https://luciopatone.it/en/notes/nis2-without-panic/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lucio Patone What the EU cybersecurity directive actually asks of a mid-sized company.