# Gaurav Albal
> Don’t be on call for your AI
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## Pages
- [About this site](https://www.gauravalbal.com/about.md) - I've spent my career across finance and tech — credit risk at Goldman Sachs and Capital One, fraud detection at a startup in Latin America, content strategy and data science at a major tech company, loss forecasting at SoFi. The common thread: the metric stops measuring what you think it's measurin…

## Posts
- [Compared to What?](https://www.gauravalbal.com/compared-to-what.md) - The jump starter box said it was "good for a car." One dead battery later I'm on the phone with AAA, because "good for a car" turned out to mean 500 amps against an engine that wanted 660. For some reason I'd trusted the box to know my needs better than I did. I think about that box every time an X…
- [Teaching an algorithm Sanzo Wada's eye](https://www.gauravalbal.com/teaching-an-algorithm-sanzo-wadas-eye.md) - sanzo-sampler · a case study The colours were easy. Teaching the metric how Wada combines them took five tries. I set out to generate palettes in the spirit of A Dictionary of Color Combinations. The colours were easy. Learning how Wada combines them took five tries — and each failure taught me I w…
- [Answers Aren't Work](https://www.gauravalbal.com/answers-arent-work.md) - Six analytics cases. Same adversarial fixtures, one variable changed: model scale. Dependent variable: a blinded LLM-as-judge rubric answering "would a real person have acted on this report as-written." In my manual adjudication, hard file/data mistakes fell from three on Haiku, to two on Sonnet, t…
- [Prompting Is Not a Safety Boundary](https://www.gauravalbal.com/prompting-is-not-a-safety-boundary.md) - A friend wanted me to double check a retention analysis that he put together using LLMs. The summary said retention was 20%. The source data said 8%. Turns out, the agent had filtered the cohort by last_active instead of first_seen — silently dropping every user who'd churned more than 30 days ago.…
- ["Green" Isn't Done](https://www.gauravalbal.com/green-isnt-done.md) - Your codebase is fighting entropy every day. AI doesn't change that — it accelerates entropy unless your harness enforces hard boundaries. The goal isn't "more autonomy." The goal is bounded entropy so you're not on call for your AI. This is the first post in a series about that problem. We'll star…

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