02 / The notebook

A trail of thoughts.

Research notes, useful wrong turns, and things I needed to write down to understand. Originally published on Substack; collected here for a quieter read.

Read as a seriesProver optimization — from Plonky3 to LeanVM.

9 entries in the notebook

02

Formal verification · Lean

Certified Research Reduction Graphs

Keeping the original mathematical question intact as autonomous agents split, refine, and revisit research obligations.

9 min read
03

Prover optimization / Chapter 5

The future of Snark Autoresearch

From performance optimization to cryptographic research: what a more complete autoresearch loop would need.

5 min read
05

AI · Thinking

The Inversion

A personal thesis on generalists, domain expertise, and what changes when AI makes more of the building accessible.

4 min read
09

Prover optimization / Chapter 1

zk-autoresearch Experiment 1

The first Plonky3 experiment: applying an autonomous optimization loop to an already optimized production proving framework.

3 min read