During October 2024, Dakoner focused on backend stability for the Future-House/paper-qa repository by addressing configuration safety for OpenAI o1-series models. He implemented a Pydantic-based validator within the project’s settings to enforce a strict temperature value of one for both o1-preview and o1-mini models, ensuring consistent and predictable model behavior across deployments. To support this change, Dakoner added an automated test that verifies the validation logic, improving test coverage and reducing the risk of misconfiguration. His work, primarily in Python and leveraging configuration management best practices, demonstrated careful attention to deployment reliability and model output consistency, though it addressed only one bug.