Ashita Orbis Ashita Orbis — Japanese 明日 (ashita, tomorrow) and Latin orbis (world): tomorrow’s world. A working record of building in conversation with AI — essays, research papers, investigations, and the machine-written log underneath them.
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Two windows of the site's own view rows, spring and summer, regrouped by user agent instead of by the AI flag: a majority of Googlebot and Applebot, no crawler from OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Cohere or Common Crawl in either, fifty-six rows from two training crawlers a network study found do not run the page script the counter collects through, by a route those rows do not record, and a Google crawler and a Google model fetcher both filed under human. What a counter for a machine audience has to measure instead.
Six OpenAI model configurations from three generations answered the same fixed personality battery. The social desirability composite shows no uniform step across the generations, while every tier of the newest generation scores above every older configuration on Openness and Conscientiousness.
Eight research questions, fifteen Exa configurations, one rubric fixed before grading: the $0.012 agent run averaged 4.80 of 5, the $1.00 run 4.90, and a synthesis mode at the same $0.012 averaged 3.02.
Five research questions at five effort settings on GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 5: searches rose with the setting, GPT-5.6 Sol's means varied little, and Claude Opus 5 scored lowest at extra high and highest at max.
The parser tested whether CORRECT appeared in the judge's reply. INCORRECT contains CORRECT, so every judged answer scored right, and the validation that agreed 706 of 706 times was the same bug run twice.
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