Alex “Slobo” Slobodnik

Hi, I'm Slobo. I grew up in Chicago and moved to New York in 2023. I put machines to work at fullrange.ai. I like coffee, hiking, and reading.

I post on and write on Substack.

Experiments

1. i. AskJev Essay

   Ask Jev a yes or no question and get a probability back. Add one more detail and watch it change its mind.

2. ii. Writing Grader Essay

   Paste a draft and get it graded for defensive, wordy, and jargon-heavy writing. Uses Jev by TypeSafe to assess.

3. iii. Three Speeds Essay

   How long does it take AI to write the U.S. Constitution? Watch it happen at speeds from 10 to 17,000 tokens per second.

4. iv. Private. Essay

   Finds and redacts personal info with a small model running locally. 14x faster than the fastest hosted OpenAI model I tested.

5. v. Slobo Score Essay

   Scores your writing by how surprising each word is to a language model. Built to catch AI slop, it ended up rewarding short, direct writing.

6. vi. A Page for You

   A website that makes itself up for whoever is visiting. No two visitors get the same page.

Sites I maintain

1. i. Stringscout stringscout.com

   The public record of self-revealed strings in ICANN's 2026 gTLD round. Every string links to the applicant's own statement or the report it came from.

2. ii. Voting Power votingpower.xyz

   See who the top ENS delegates are, and who delegates to them.