Stories by etherio

Agents are under-elicited: A case study in optimization tasks

Inverse Rubric Optimization: A testbed for agent science

Multi-agent systems as distributed software

Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory

Show HN: Druids – coordinate and deploy coding agents across machines

More Is Different for Intelligence

Show HN: Orpheus – PR review that runs the code

2025 Letter

Personalization Requires Data

Show HN: Lunette – auditing agents for evals and environments

Dense reconstruction is the scaffold of machine learning

Show HN: Quibbler – A critic for your coding agent that learns what you want

Show HN: Orchestra – an interface to usefully run coding agents in parallel

Show HN: Automated monitoring and orchestration of coding agents

AI Agents and Painted Facades

The machine has no mouth and it must scream

2024 in Review

Aphantasia (and how not to do math in your head)

My favorite essays of life advice (2020)

Using AI and Web content to improve organization and discovery of my knowledge

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