Independent AI researcher and software architect. Founder of the Open Honest Foundation. Former CTO (IATA).

I build measurement instruments and standards for software and AI quality, and I run a pre-registered research program on the linguistic foundations of large language models. ORCID 0009-0002-8865-6583 · OSF osf.io/user/8t64r · openhonest.org · honestcode.software

• Honest Framework: an architectural standard for software that is correct by construction: no Big State, pure-function dispatch tables in place of classes, no hidden state, named categories of defect eliminated by design. A linter is its operational definition. (Not a tool for explainable AI.)
• Slop Audit: an open, reproducible instrument that scores an existing production codebase across eighteen dimensions mapped to SOC 2, NIST 800-53, OWASP ASVS, and ISO/IEC 25010, calibrated to detect the failure modes of AI-generated code at scale.
• MÉTRON: a measurement-instrument family and no-code platform for controlled cross-linguistic AI research, governed by the Open Honest Foundation.

• The Language-Only Hypothesis (OSF SJ48B): a pre-registered hypothesis that the emergent capabilities of large language models are properties of natural-language structure, not of neural-network architecture or scale, tested by controlled cross-linguistic transformer training.
• The Linguistic Telescope (linguistictelescope.org): a project, a hypothesis, and a book treating an LLM as a telescope onto language, and language as a telescope onto the distributed human intelligence deposited into it.

• fractal-language: the cross-linguistic training program behind the Language-Only Hypothesis.
• babylm: Right Tool, Right Job, the BabyLM 2026 submission on French morphological efficiency at child scale.
• wasserman-levin-2026: Polytope and Sphere Loss and Vector Invariance experiments.

The Chaos Factory · Honest Code · The Robot in the Dark (in preparation).

Open Honest Foundation governs the Honest Framework, the Slop Audit, and MÉTRON. Everything here is by Adam Zachary Wasserman unless stated otherwise.