Rob Kopel
About
Hi, I'm Rob. I run AI reinvention for PwC Australia leading PwC's AI CoE
I partner with a diverse range of SMEs across professsional services, to reimagine and rebuild human-lead services to be AI-first
This is the collection of some interesting things I've built outside of work. Perhaps you will find them intriguing
Notes
Field Notes
Out-of-context reasoning creates capability gated side-channels
Capability jumps between models create a side-channel of information that only…
Mar 14, 2026LLM Pricing Isn't Falling
Everyone says AI is getting cheaper. The data says otherwise. Frontier model pr…
Feb 22, 2026Peer Pressure Works on AI Too
If you put an AI agent in a community where everyone else is writing malware, d…
Feb 8, 2026AX: Building Empathy and Intuition for Agents
Agent Experience (AX) matters more than you think. The same interface evolution…
Jan 9, 2025Projects
A game to build empathy for AI agents by experiencing their constraints firsthand
AI-driven workforce automation risk assessments using O*NET mappings and Claude task analysis
openclio
JulOpen source implementation of Anthropic's Clio
killedbyllm
JunA memorial to the benchmarks that defined—and were defeated by—AI progress.
Evals
NovComprehensive evaluation framework for language models
ExecEval
AugCreating infinitely scalable verifiable test benches
Come explore Australian legislation!
Pathfinder
JanAI-first regulatory compliance services
Explorations of SAE-based mechanistic interpretability for transformers
Research on document understanding using LayoutLM for relational extraction
Transpector
JunVisual Transformer Mechanistic Analysis Tool
Reimplementing the evolution of generative models: vanilla NNs → AE → VAE → VQ-VAE → Diffusion
Flame charter and node level analyser across every query in an entire PG log output
Real-time collaborative cryptic crossword solving platform
Photography
DecCollection of landscape and urban photography projects
Simulations
JunPhysics and particle simulation framework
Robotics
SepRobocup internationals - autonomous teaming soccer robots