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Show HN: Fixing AI's Core Flaws, A protocol cuts LLM token waste by 40–70%

WujieGuGavin Tuesday, February 17, 2026

WLM (Wujie Language Model), a protocol stack + world engine that rethinks AI from token prediction to structural intelligence. I built this to fix the problems we all deal with daily: hallucination, drift, uncontrollable behavior, black-box reasoning, unstructured knowledge, and chaotic world/agent generation.

The Pain We Can’t Keep Ignoring

Current LLMs/agents are token predictors, not intelligences. They suffer from:

• Hallucination: No grounded structure → guesses instead of knowing.

• Persona drift: Personality is prompt-hacked, not structural.

• Uncontrollable behavior: Sampling, not deterministic structure.

• Black-box reasoning: No traceable reasoning path.

• Knowledge soup: Embeddings/vectors, no formal structure.

• Fragile world models: Prediction, not interpretable structure.

• Random generation: No consistent causal/world rules.

We’ve patched these with RAG, fine-tuning, prompts, RLHF — but they’re band-aids on a foundational flaw: AI lacks structure.

How WLM Solves It

WLM is a 7-layer structural protocol stack that turns input into closed-loop structure: interpretation → reasoning → action → generation. It’s not a model — it’s a language + protocol + world engine.

The layers (all repos live now):

1. Structural Language Protocol (SLP) – Input → dimensional structure (foundation)

2. World Model Interpreter – World model outputs → interpretable structure

3. Agent Behavior Layer – Structure → stable, controllable agent runtime

4. Persona Engine – Structure → consistent, non-drifting characters

5. Knowledge Engine – Token soup → structured knowledge graphs

6. Metacognition Engine – Reasoning path → self-monitoring, anti-hallucination

7. World Generation Protocol (WGP) – Structure → worlds, physics, narratives, simulations

Together they form a structural loop: Input → SLP → World Structure → Behavior → Persona → Knowledge → Metacognition → World Generation → repeat.

What This Changes

• No more hallucination: Reasoning is traced, checked, structural.

• No persona collapse: Identity is architecture, not prompts.

• Controllable agents: Behavior is structural, not sampling chaos.

• Explainable AI: Every output has a structural origin.

• True knowledge: Not embeddings — structured, navigable, verifiable.

• Worlds that persist: Generative worlds with rules, causality, topology.

Repos (8 released today)

Root: https://github.com/gavingu2255-ai/WLM Plus SLP, World Model Interpreter, Agent Behavior, Persona Engine, Knowledge Engine, Metacognition Engine, World Generation Protocol.

MIT license. Docs, architecture, roadmap, and glossary included.

Why This Matters

AI shouldn’t just predict tokens. It should interpret, reason, act, and generate worlds — reliably, interpretably, structurally.

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The protocol (minimal version)

[Task] What needs to be done. [Structure] Atomic, verifiable steps. [Constraints] Rules, limits, formats. [Execution] Only required operations. [Output] Minimal valid result.

That’s it.

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Before / After

Without SLP

150–300 tokens Inconsistent Narrative-heavy Hard to reproduce

With SLP

15–40 tokens Deterministic Structured Easy to reproduce

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Why this matters

• Token usage ↓ 40–70% • Latency ↓ 20–50% • Hallucination ↓ significantly • Alignment becomes simpler • Outputs become predictable

SLP doesn’t make models smarter. It removes the noise that makes them dumb.

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Who this is for

• AI infra teams • Agent developers • Prompt engineers • LLM product teams • Researchers working on alignment & reasoning

https://github.com/gavingu2255-ai/WLM-Core/blob/main/STP.md (different repo stp in a simple version)

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