Brummel
65a4f0aa16
Two live IONOS harness invocations with the ms.1 fix in place:
- Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next → runs/2026-05-12-080864/ (RUN_STATUS=ok)
- meta-llama/CodeLlama-13b-Instruct-hf
→ runs/2026-05-12-9197fd/ (RUN_STATUS=ok;
2/8 JSON cells terminated as api_failure
on turn 1 zero-token — transient IONOS
terminal error, disclosed in addendum)
Per-cell results (reached/4, prompt tokens, completion tokens):
Qwen JSON 1/4 182,378 14,972
Qwen AILX 1/4 110,575 3,474
CodeLlama JSON 0/4 116,015 2,711 [2 cells api_failure]
CodeLlama AILX 2/4 93,017 2,234
Both subjects agree on direction: AILX cohort cheaper on prompt
tokens (Qwen 61%, CodeLlama 80% of JSON-cohort spend) and on
completion tokens (Qwen 23%, CodeLlama 82%); AILX reached-green
≥ JSON reached-green for each subject. Three of four
first-attempt-green cells across the two subjects are AILX.
Failure classes split symmetric to form: JSON cohorts fail at
typecheck, AILX cohorts at parse — each form's
front-of-pipeline check.
DESIGN.md §"Decision 6 / Empirical addendum (2026-05-12)"
replaced: 2-column single-subject view → 4-column two-subject
view, framing paragraph reports direction agreement and the
api_failure / Qwen-rerun-noise anomalies, scope paragraph
updated to 'two subjects, n=1 each, deterministic; not a
verdict — a universal claim would need ≥3 subjects with
statistical robustness'.
Roadmap P3 'Multi-subject expansion' entry removed; scoped
goal met for two subjects.
Milestone token spend: prompt 501,985 + completion 23,391
= 525,376.
Cross-model authoring-form test
Empirical measurement of whether .ail.json or .ailx is the form a
foreign LLM author reaches for and succeeds with. Single subject for
v1: Qwen3-Coder-Next via IONOS. Two blind cohorts; same four tasks.
Parent spec: docs/specs/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring-form-test.md.
Layout
master/spec.md— canonical mini-spec source (form-agnostic prose +{form-only: X}blocks +{example: id}markers).master/examples/*.ail.json— AST source-of-truth; each example prints to either form via the existing roundtrip machinery.master/tasks/*.task.json— task definitions consumed by the harness. Authored in cma.2, not cma.1.render/— standalone Cargo crate, outside the root workspace, builds the renderer binary.rendered/json.md,rendered/ailx.md— projected mini-specs, checked into the repo for review.harness/— Authored in cma.2.runs/<date>-<hash>/— populated byharnessduring a live run.
Running the renderer
cargo run --manifest-path experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/render/Cargo.toml -- \
--master experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/master \
--rendered experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/rendered
Running the tests
cargo test --manifest-path experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/render/Cargo.toml
Three integration tests: example_roundtrip (each example loads,
prints to AILX, reparses to the same canonical bytes), spec_completeness
(every AST variant in ailang_core::ast is exercised by at least
one example), token_balance (form-only blocks balanced within ±5%
across the two rendered files).
Running the harness
Live mode (one full eight-run sweep, ~480k tokens budget by default):
export IONOS_API_TOKEN="<token>" # see roadmap entry for token provenance
cargo run --manifest-path experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/harness/Cargo.toml -- \
--rendered experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/rendered \
--tasks experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/master/tasks \
--out experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/runs \
--model Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next
The harness pre-flights ail --version and clang --version before
the first API call. Set AIL_BIN if ail is not on PATH.
Mock mode (offline; CI-friendly; bypasses the IONOS API):
cargo run --manifest-path experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/harness/Cargo.toml -- \
--rendered experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/rendered \
--tasks experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/master/tasks \
--out /tmp/mock-runs \
--model mock \
--mock experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/harness/tests/fixtures/mock_full_run.json
Tests:
cargo test --manifest-path experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/harness/Cargo.toml
Five suites: inline --lib unit tests for strip_locations (5),
plus integration tests strip_locations against captured stderr
fixtures (5), verify_references (1, drives every reference through
the real ail+clang pipeline), mock_full_run (1, full eight-row
mock E2E), budget_abort (1). Total 13 passed.