negative-result
Everything on Ground Truth tagged “negative-result” — 3 items.
Letting an agent organise its own memory halved retrieval cost and improved no answers News
The first systematic study of the markdown-filesystem memory that deployed AI agents actually use found that organisation reliably buys cheaper search, but that no agent tested converted a tidier memory into better answers - and organisation eroded as the store grew.
Asking a model to check its own work lost every comparison against just sampling more answers News
A controlled experiment counting every token spent found that seven popular self-improvement methods - self-refinement, reflection, debate, best-of-N selection - never reliably beat the simplest baseline of generating several answers and taking the most common one, and ten of them were reliably worse.
An AI that could rewrite its own words — and gained nothing from it News
A different style of text AI can go back and change any word at any point as it writes. Given that power, it didn't actually produce better writing. A clean negative result.