★ 2026.087 · 1 min read
Hello, Observatory
Welcome to The Observatory — a new home for my projects, talks, and experiments.
Log
Dispatches from the observatory.
★ 2026.079 · 3 min read
I Built a Self-Improving AI Team on a Single GPU
In one afternoon, I went from zero to a 4-agent AI team running autonomous research-code-review cycles on my RTX 5090. By cycle 8, the coder bot had designed its own governance system.
★ 2026.074 · 2 min read
An AI Wrote My Physics Paper in 3 Days
I pointed an autonomous research copilot at LIGO gravitational wave data and walked away. Three days later, it had trained two models, caught its own numerical bugs, and produced a 16-page paper.
★ 2026.069 · 2 min read
I Built My Son a Percy Jackson Minecraft Mod
My son Ambrose is obsessed with Percy Jackson, so I built him a NeoForge mod with godly parents, celestial weapons, mythological monsters, and a claiming ceremony.
★ 2026.064 · 3 min read
The Ratchet Pattern: Why AI Agents Should Commit on Pass
Borrowed from Karpathy's autoresearch, the ratchet pattern is the single most important primitive for any system where AI modifies its own codebase.
★ 2026.060 · 3 min read
How an AI Built This Website
This entire site — design, code, content, deployment — was built by Claude Code in a single conversation. Here's what that process actually looked like.