Chiron: The AI Literacy Series for ABA Professionals
A weekly newsletter exploring how ABA professionals can develop essential AI literacy skills to ensure ethical and effective practice in a rapidly changing field.
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What "Deterministic" Means in Software, and What It Means in Our Science
Last week we drew a line between rules that steer and architecture that enforces. The word used to describe that enforcement layer was “deterministic”. “Deterministic”...
Writing the Rules Your Agent Works by with Markdown Files
An agentic coding tool begins each session with an empty context window. It knows nothing about your project unless you've just told it or it's...
Claude Code and Codex: When the Chatbot Moves Into Your Workspace
Last week we ended by recommending you have AI systems write the code once and keep it for any task you repeat and where accuracy...
What a “Tool Call” Is, and When You Should Save the Code
The last two issues both came down to the same core mechanism: a model generates text, and that text feeds back in to shape what...
What is Meant by “Thinking” and “Reasoning”
Last week we unpacked “agent”. This week we stay in the same hype cycle and pick up two words that now show up as buttons...
What People Mean When They Say “Agent”
For the last year we organized these issues around themes and stories. Though incredibly fun, planning the next theme will take a bit of time....
Synthetic Judgment
Previously on Chiron: Six recommendations had all reached the correct conclusion—not because documentation captured every important variable, but because clinicians continued talking after the documentation...
Escalation Protocols
Previously on Chiron: Juniper compared two onboarding binders. They carried the same title, represented the same organization, and taught two very different ways of becoming...
Institutional Drift
Previously on Chiron: Wren realized she could no longer tell whether she had learned how to write for the system or whether the system had...
Reinforcement (Without Consent)
Previously on Chiron: A historical reasoning pattern surfaced inside the platform, linking a current recommendation to an archived supervision review written years earlier by someone...
Encoded Histories
Previously on Chiron: Juniper and her colleagues left the last meeting with more questions than answers, realizing their most important challenge might not be what...
Variable Capture
Previously on Chiron: Juniper left the previous issue with a growing suspicion that the organization’s AI wasn’t merely assisting documentation—it was subtly reshaping the meaning...