The Lab
2026 — building in public. In progress.
Digits Know Who Wrote Them
Seventeen domain-blind detectors, pointed at earthquakes, balance sheets, twenty thousand stars and two planet catalogues. One of them can tell whether a human typed the numbers. →
Same Hand
Five strangers built quietfail. Eighty-six built claude-pet. A man named Ben built my groundskeeper. None of them met. Then 200 cold AI sessions across eight model versions showed how: the model draws coined names from a short menu, and the descriptive names are ours. →
Two Ways to a Number Nobody Had
The OEIS publishes its own thin places. Most are thin because they are hard — the famous short entries stop at standing records. We found one that was short because nobody had been back, pushed it further, and computed every new term two independent ways. Wiseman’s 2020 conjecture holds for every one of them. Still unproven — the solver is in the post. →
Career Compass, Step by Step
A free, local-first job-search assistant that runs inside Claude — your facts in plain files on your own disk, a résumé rendered from them per posting, and interview prep built around the questions they will ask and the ones you should ask back. One illustrated page: the five steps, the interview prep, and the read-only dashboard. Fact-checked against the 2.9.0 release; no usage figures, because none are measured. →
A Proof You Can Check Yourself
Another AI-claimed proof — but this one's elementary, checkable by hand. Erdős Check re-derived both halves of a crack at Erdős 793 — both re-derivations from one model family, so one lens split two ways, not two independent looks — found it holds up with one cosmetic gap, and marks exactly where to aim your own skepticism. Not “verified” — that word stays reserved for the kernel. →
Grading the Machine's Homework
OpenAI claims a 3-page proof of a 50-year-old conjecture. Erdős's whole thesis — the dangerous moment is promotion, not the idea — just had its first live-fire test. Pinned, read, executed on 409 graphs, kernel-checked, and graded: corroborated, not promoted. →
The First Verified Node
Erdős Check, earned its first kernel-checked “verified” stamp — R(3,3) > 5, proved in Lean with no axioms. The result is settled math from 1955. The novelty is the tool, and the honesty gate that makes one word mean one thing. →
About the Lab
Why a one-human, agent-augmented studio names itself for a broken branch — the place the rings finally show. The dendrochronology behind the name, carried the whole way down. →
Portfolio in a Box
The argument for a portfolio site that sounds like a person, plus the actual box: a downloadable starter with the voice baked in and the identity swappable. Taste as a starting point, not a cage. →
Learning to Ship
Oct 2025 – Mar 2026 · written during the ten-month gap — a senior PM learning to build, in public.
Growth Rings — 10 Months of Job Searching
203 applications, 76 rejection emails, 34 ghosts, 2,710 GitHub contributions, 6 products live as of March 2026. A data-driven cross-section of ten months in the 2025–26 market — the funnel, the ghosts, and the parallel build sprint that changed the trajectory. →
The Productive Compute Framework
Self-sustaining AI infrastructure for global public good: converting idle compute into verified outcomes through outcome-based funding. Whitepaper, draft v2.0. →
If You Can Read a Recipe, You Can Now Be a Developer
The $1K Experiment, Part 2: what happens when the framework compounds. 5.5 hours to a working MVP; 2,031 lines became 106,000. Shipping is addictive — here's the warning label. →
The $1K Claude Code Credit: What Happens When a PM Learns to Ship
Could a senior PM with product clarity but no coding background actually build and ship real software? 31 days, 215 commits, 38K lines of TypeScript, and the 64/33/3 collaboration model that made it work. →
The 90-Day Death Spiral: Why 95% of AI Projects Fail
Only ~5% of AI pilots deliver measurable impact. The early-warning system hiding in your support tickets — and the metrics that predict failure before day 90. →
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