WybieLabs
An independent applied AI research lab.
Abstract
WybieLabs is a personal, open research notebook for applied work with modern AI systems. It exists to collect ideas, prototypes, and short essays in one place, and to make it easy for friends and collaborators to read along, push back, or build something together. Everything here is a draft; nothing is final.
1. Why this exists
The name is a tell. Wybie, the kid from Coraline, is short for Wyborne — which he reads as "why born?" The lab borrows that question, and the shrug that comes with it: most of what lives here doesn't strictly need to exist. We just wanted to build it, poke at it, and see what came out.
The interesting questions in AI right now are downstream of one thing: what can you actually build when you take frontier models seriously and put them in front of real users. WybieLabs is a place to think about that out loud — slowly, in writing, and in code.
It is not a company and not a product. It is closer to a small workshop: notes pinned to the wall, a few ongoing experiments, and the door left open for people who want to work on the same questions.
2. What we play with
The lab juggles three things, all tangled together:
- Products. Small things shipped to real people, on purpose, fully aware they will break. The fastest way to find out which of our clever ideas were actually clever.
- Research. Questions interesting enough to chase on a Saturday. Half lead somewhere, half don't — both end up teaching something worth writing down.
- Learnings. The bits we got wrong, the surprises, the workarounds the docs forgot to mention. Captured while the bruises are still fresh.
3. Projects
Active and past experiments will be listed here as they become presentable. Each entry links to a write-up and, where possible, a repository.
- Chat Memory long-term memory for personal conversation · why append-only
4. Notes & essays
Short pieces, in the spirit of working notes rather than finished articles. Expect rough edges.
5. Collaborating
WybieLabs is small on purpose, but very open to collaboration with people working on adjacent problems. If you'd like to:
- co-author a note or experiment,
- contribute a project,
- or just argue with something written here,
the easiest path is to open an issue or pull request on the repository, or reach out by email.