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A running log of research ideas, implementation notes, and project documentation.

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CrashDiag: Mechanically Verified RL for Infrastructure Repair

A deeper look at CrashDiag, the first Indium AI Labs environment for training agents to diagnose and repair infrastructure faults with executable rewards instead of LLM judges.

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Starting Indium AI Labs

Why I am building CrashDiag and starting Indium AI Labs to create mechanically verified reinforcement-learning environments for infrastructure and security agents.

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Qwen on SRE-Zero Easy: Agent Control Matters

A managed-run report comparing plain prompting, ReAct, and guided open-source-agent control for Qwen on the SRE-Zero easy split.

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Benchmarking Agents Is Also a Systems Problem

Why I paused SRE-Zero's 40-task open-weight sweep and added retries, cooldowns, checkpoints, pause, and resume before publishing larger model results.

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