ben guo
about me
I’m a musician and builder, formerly a founder and engineering leader. I write regularly about building my software factory, making music, and living in Puerto Rico. The name Hraness is a nod to the agent harness, but it also means “Ra-ness”. Ra called all forms of life into existence by uttering their secret names. Every evening, Ra journeys into the underworld, transforms into his ram-headed form, and is joined by his buddies Sia (perception), Hu (command), and Heka (magic power). He defeats the snake god of chaos Apophis, and returns at dawn to triumphantly light the day.
writing
projects
at the beginning of time, when there was nothing but chaos, atum existed alone in the watery mass of nun. a pyramid mound called benben emerged. when the lotus flower bloomed, atum dawned and became ra. every night ra sails in the underworld on the solar barque atet.
- hraness.compersonal site
- aicharts.iopareto frontier charts
- sleepy.landcalming sound machine
- rough.daynews aggregator
- stripedex.comhistory of a generational co
- act60.memove to puerto rico
- wrench.ripprecise web capabilities for agents
- atet.shmedia generation toolkit
- peopleblade.comagentic rolodex
- spongeresearch.comabsorb knowledge
- kbrepo knowledge base
- directlet agents drive UI fast
- hra.shmulti-sub codex driver
- sound.fishcontent-addressable music
elsewhere
reading
- bb: the agent ide that builds itself
- training a 125m-parameter model to autocomplete piano
- personal agents notes (instinct / grok bots / chatgpt work)
- alibaba is a factory directory
- building software factories (with no slop)
- everything i know, section 12
- everything i know, section 11
- everything i know, section 10
- everything i know, section 9
- everything i know, section 8
- everything i know, section 7
- everything i know, section 6
- everything i know, section 5
- everything i know, section 4
- everything i know, section 3
- everything i know, section 2
- everything i know, section 1
- extensible software in the age of llms
- hax, a minimalist terminal-native coding agent
- ian xiaohei illustrations
- if a hdd was an airplane...
- stripe's letter on acquiring openrouter
- the best general advice on earth
- very much in line with…
- desktopfly
- does creatine make you smarter?
- git at any scale
- tokens are the new dollars
- turbovec
- finger: the 1971 social network that never died
- the benchmarkpocalypse
- too dangerous to concentrate or distribute?
- ai isn’t outthinking mathematicians. it’s out-remembering them.
- cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
- guiding ships with moire patterns
- patterns and problems in multiagent systems
- so how is ai drug discovery doing, really?
- chiptycoon: how a computer chip is made
- deepseek harness
- draw faces with javascript
- eigendrum
- everything is about to “go dark”
- how to influence google ai overviews
- kelly criterion simulator
- painting with gaussians
- tests must justify their presence
- words have power
- x for you feed algorithm
- reality has a surprising amount of detail
- agentic web index: spoofing & security
- felix and i
- a tome of forbidden technologies
- discovery loop — continuous exploration
- feynobg: a sota model for background removal
- google search is dying. what comes next is worse
- harmony explained: progress towards a scientific theory of music
- let’s all meet up in the y2k
- nvidia’s risky business
- petri nets as a music sequencer
- something is changing in the unit economics of software
- tech leaders say ai means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week
- the gargantuan lie that is collapsing the world’s climate
- why is everyone in tech so sad?
- joe rogan experience #2530 - timothy alberino
- developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
- llms reward expertise
- mirrorcode: what's the largest software project ai can complete on its own?
- prime agent: a self-improving rlm agent
- martin shkreli breaks down the collapse of situational awareness
- sarah's wager
- the artist who colored ghibli
- the rise of million-dollar companies with just one employee
- the shape of things to come, part 1: the continuous thunderdome
- it scrolls up
- trajectory: a standard format for agent experience data
- obliterate, don’t automate
- the building block economy
- heaven in a silicon chip
