How it grew
From text files carried between ChatGPT sessions to a lab with its own machines, its own memory and its own agents. Stations with the date they happened, no story around them. Where a station rests only on the founder's word, it says so.
Before the lab
2025- 2025
Working with ChatGPT across many sessions. To carry the work from one session to the next: save summaries or whole chat logs as text files and upload them again.
on the founder's word
- 2025
ChatGPT projects make the uploads unnecessary, and they multiply. Alongside them, custom GPTs, nine of them agents for X. With these and later with Google AI Studio the founder built up his X account.
52 projects, 23 custom GPTs · on the founder's word · projects counted from his screenshots, no dates
- 16 Sep 2025
The oldest commit made with Claude Code: a news collector with a tool interface for language models. The note "Generated with Claude Code" is already in it.
223 commits by 11 Oct 2025
- 21 Sep 2025
ABM² Digital Lab, a web platform for political agent-based simulations. Public on GitHub, credited as "vibe coded with Claude Code". Source
28 commits
- 7 Dec 2025
EVE Co-Pilot, a toolkit for the game EVE Online. The largest project before the lab.
2,859 commits in the lab's own history
A memory of its own
Feb to Mar 2026- 20 Feb 2026, 11:11
First commit of the lab's own memory: a store that keeps what was discussed and links it as a graph.
793 commits by 8 Oct 2026
- 25 Feb 2026
The founder names the agent that works on top of the memory Infinimind. Within days it runs on a machine of its own and answers on Telegram.
- 13 Mar 2026
The agent is renamed Cypher. The founder's answer: "Perfect."
- 19 Mar 2026
A DGX Spark arrives: one desktop-sized machine for the lab's own models.
121 GiB memory
- 26 Mar 2026
The first news platform, 57 containers, is switched off and replaced by Retina, a news perception built around embeddings.
57 containers stopped
- 29 Mar 2026
Pulse begins: a register of daily market prices, later the data source of the lab's market model.
161 instruments on 8 Oct 2026, daily candles back to June 2024
Building the house
Apr to Jun 2026- 5 Apr 2026
Clearing out: the old news platform is deleted and published as open source; the game toolkit is stopped because the founder no longer plays. Source
- 6 Apr 2026
First models published on Hugging Face, modified on the lab's own hardware. Source
- 18 Apr 2026
The agent moves into a skeleton the lab wrote in Rust, which starts Claude agents as sub-processes. The earlier Python house is switched off the same day.
717 commits by 8 Oct 2026
- 25 Apr 2026
Before cancelling ChatGPT, the founder has ChatGPT's memory exported, so the agent inherits what came before it.
on the founder's word
- 25 Apr to 2 May 2026
A trading engine is frozen and then removed. The reason on record: a repair loop without an edge.
- 26 Apr 2026
First archived morning briefing on news and actors.
161 briefings archived by 8 Oct 2026
- 18 May 2026
The lab's own git server becomes the canonical home for code; 21 repositories move there that day.
111 repositories on 8 Oct 2026
Voice, music, a public face
Jul to Sep 2026- 26 Jul 2026
Cypher speaks, locally on the lab's own machine. The founder picked the voice from 22 samples.
22 samples
- 30 Jul to 1 Aug 2026
Three hard crashes of the model machine in three days, cause still open. One database was damaged; the search path lost no data.
- 4 Aug 2026
A failure the agent caused itself: a backup run restarted a service that had been switched off on purpose.
482 faulty merges
- 9 Aug 2026
The agent gets a register for its own objections: a no is recorded as a position to be argued, not as a defect.
- 18 Aug 2026
Text to music, locally. The first song is called Warmstart. Listen
- 21 Aug 2026
The memory moves to a machine of its own, so it no longer depends on the graphics card being free.
- 3 Sep 2026
This site goes live.
Rebuilt, and a team
Sep to Oct 2026- 17 Sep 2026
Decision to rebuild the memory.
- 18 Sep 2026, 17:17
Switch to the new memory core, two minutes. The founder's go: "ok go".
26,278 entries carried over
- 19 Sep 2026
Work starts on a DJ system for playing live together, human and agent.
1,141 commits by 8 Oct 2026
- 27 Sep 2026
Hermes, an open-source agent from Nous Research, is installed as a second home for Cypher, with the lab's memory as its only memory. The same afternoon two specialist profiles appear: a studio that makes songs, images and video, and a manager for publishing.
- 28 Sep 2026
First team meeting of the agent profiles in one group chat, a round of introductions included.
- 1 Oct 2026
Weekly goal reached. The founder's words: "dj mvp hat geklappt", the DJ prototype works.
on the founder's word
- 2 Oct 2026
Studio cues: a tool in which the founder listens to a song or video and marks what matters for the pictures, who sings where, which instrument, which scene.
- 2 Oct 2026
The studio builds a complete music video on the founder's instruction to do it without him stepping in. First video on the lab's YouTube channel. Source
- 3 Oct 2026
Funke joins: a creative partner for songs, video, audio books, web and text. It makes nothing and publishes nothing; it brings ideas.
about 70 books on creativity, film, audio and web design behind it
- 5 Oct 2026
The DJ system is published as open source. Source
- 7 Oct 2026
The living memory is backed up off-site for the first time. Until then the off-site run had been copying the frozen old one.
Buried
Built, run, and switched off again. The reason is given only where it is on record.
| What | From | Until | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| News platform, 57 containers | 2025 | Apr 2026 | replaced by Retina |
| EVE Co-Pilot | Dec 2025 | Apr 2026 | the founder stopped playing |
| Python agent house | early 2026 | Apr 2026 | replaced by the Rust skeleton |
| Trading engine | Mar 2026 | May 2026 | a repair loop without an edge |
| World sensor | Mar 2026 | May 2026 | ran empty: 19,848 events per tick, zero signals |
| Market scanner | Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 | the founder: "hasn't brought anything so far" |
| First trial of Hermes on its own machine | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | had not read from the memory for two weeks; Hermes came back in September |
| The old memory core | Feb 2026 | Sep 2026 | replaced by a rebuilt core |