/tags/cognitive-modes/Recent content in Cognitive Modes on Matt GrahamHugoen-auWed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000/blog/testing-the-theory/Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000/blog/testing-the-theory/The convergent/divergent framework from my AI pipeline project was a theory built on one domain. I tested it against Anthropic’s knowledge-work-plugins across six domains, then against a professional reasoning benchmark. Pipeline won in five of the original six, then lost on the benchmark — and the failure sharpened the thesis into something more honest: pipelines earn their cost only when the correct output can’t be produced without seeing the specific input data./blog/context-carries-cognitive-mode/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000/blog/context-carries-cognitive-mode/I removed a quality-checking section from an AI prompt. The prompt got smaller. The output got deeper. Same model, same data, 70% of the context window unused. This wasn’t a capacity problem./blog/the-evidence-for-thinking-in-modes-evidence/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000/blog/the-evidence-for-thinking-in-modes-evidence/The companion evidence post to ‘Context Carries Cognitive Mode’ — containing the full experiment designs, version comparisons, and claims tables. Each section is self-contained. Every claim is mapped to its evidence and its limitations.