Luigi Petrucco
Data scientist and AI engineer at Afliant. Part-time AI alignment researcher, working on the behavior of language models: chain of thought, elicitation, and red-teaming.
Previously a neuroscience researcher: a postdoc at the Iurilli lab at IIT, working on hunting behavior in rodents — and before a PhD in Munich with Ruben Portugues, on heading direction circuits in the larval zebrafish brain.
Recent writing
- Leaking Muse's Charter, Meta's model spec October 2026
- Hannibal Mistral: the Mistral Family Has a Problem May 2026
- Xerox Machines of Loving Grace March 2026
- The Messiest Codebase in the Universe (so far) February 2026
- Can a Neuroscientist Understand an LLM? March 2025