Super Intelligence Engineer
Ryan X. Charles
I manage SI agent swarms to solve complex problems.
Blog
Field notes on building with super intelligence
Money Won't Survive Super Intelligence
Energy is money is tokens: three names for one thing. As SI agents turn joules straight into solutions, the middle term gets thin. Money as wages and invoices won't survive super intelligence. Money as memory will.
The Software is Alive!
When a team of SI agents builds and maintains an app, the app starts to behave like a living thing. It senses, repairs itself and adapts to attacks, markets and the news, within bounds that humans set. Here is what that means, what works today, and where the bounds go.
The Future of Money Is Energy
Every token an SI agent spends is paid for in joules. As intelligence gets cheaper, energy becomes the one input left, and the sun makes it the frontier resource. Money will not become energy, but energy is becoming what money measures.
When the Car Comes Out Broken, Fix the Factory, Not the Car
When an SI agent ships something wrong, I do not patch the output. I fix the issue, the skill or the rule that made it, so every future agent gets it right. Here is the factory I run from chat windows today, the car it built this morning, and the harness I want instead.
492 Useful Commits on a Sunday
Last weekend, my SI agents made 447 useful commits on Saturday and 492 on Sunday, through about 7 p.m. In 2024, I averaged 19.3 commits a day. Here is how we count, what the number does not mean, and how far it is from my goal.
CAD for Software
Engineers stopped drawing parts by hand when CAD let them describe the part and let the machine make the drawings. Software is at the same turn. The spec, the rules and the checks are the design file. The code is the output.
My Computer Is a Team of Super Intelligent Agents
A supercomputer used to be one big machine. Mine is a team of super intelligent agents and one monorepo: the agents are the cores, the team is the CPU, the repo is the memory, and I am the scheduler. How to build one, where it breaks, and why the limit is now my attention.
I Make 156 Commits a Day Now
I counted every commit I made since 2024 across all of my repositories, with each commit counted once. In 2024, I made 19.3 commits a day. This October, I made 156 a day. The curve is AI, and it is still going up.
Run Agents Longer. Then Run More of Them.
Two multipliers decide how much work super intelligent agents do for you: how long each agent works without you, and how many agents work at once. What the industry has learned about both, what ran at Astrohacker this month, and the limit that is left.
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