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  1. companyhardwarestateframe

    Scaling up: the foundry gets a home

    Every result so far came from rented cloud GPUs and a 36 GB laptop I've crashed seven times running too many agents. Now the old home lab servers in my basement are getting dusted off, starting with a decade-old rack server with room for far more of them.

    5 min read
  2. loop engineeringagentsmomentum

    Entering the world of loops

    A video about loop engineering sent me down a rabbit hole. Every good process I could think of turned out to be a loop, some with smaller loops tucked inside. Here's how I think about it now, what dynamic loops are, and where Momentum fits.

    7 min read
  3. stateframeresearchopen source

    StateFrame so far: what I've measured, what I believe, and what I don't know yet

    The honest scorecard for StateFrame at release. The numbers I can stand behind, the places it still falls short, how I test ideas fast, and the theories I haven't proven yet.

    9 min read
  4. open sourcelicensing

    My promise to the open source community

    What I release under the AGPL stays open, and I put it in writing. Here's what that covers, why there's a commercial license at all, and why I want you on the team.

    3 min read
  5. companymission

    The mission: agents that can work for weeks

    Agents can handle an hour of work now. Give one a job that takes days or weeks and it falls apart. I want autonomous systems that can carry that kind of work, or run a whole business, without anyone losing the wheel.

    3 min read
  6. companyopen source

    Day 1: how Farside Research started

    Six months ago I was let go from my engineering job, and I spent those months building. Here's what came out of it, and why I'm giving it away.

    6 min read

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