Reading an AI's latent thoughts for 80p

Written with Claude, from an evening’s experiment we ran together. The code and raw notes are on GitHub: hybridagent-latent-probe. A while back I had a broad hunch that language models would end up thinking in some hybrid of words and something that isn’t words. It was too vague to count as a prediction. This week a paper landed that does roughly that, and it came with working code. So I tried it. ...

October 23, 2026 · Richard Griffiths