hraness
about
hraness is ben guo, a musician and builder, formerly a founder and engineering leader. he writes regularly about building his 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.
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.
- AI Chartspareto frontier charts
- Wrenchprecise web capabilities for agents
- PeopleBladelocal-first contact book and evidence-backed enrichment for people and agents
- Life Days Leftlife expectancy timeline
- HRApersistent codex cli
- AI Trading Cardsshareable model benchmark cards
- SWFTsoftware factories, in practice
- Message Like Merelationship-aware drafting
- Atetmedia generation toolkit
- Spongeabsorb knowledge
- oh.computeropen-source tools for agentic research
- infra map
writing
- my girlfriend asked me why i have 15 codex subscriptions
- hotcodex seed prompt
- building a software factory
- 3 lessons for founders from my time at zo computer
- hra vision prompt
- sponge vision prompt
- harnessing puerto rico
- computronium
- coding as music
- a home for the mind
- life and llms
- the future of software
- bookshelf
- movie shelf
- music vision
- ra-ness
- fiction
elsewhere
reading
- research acceleration: the view inside openai
- applied ai doesn't work
- anthropic pre-ipo whispers: navier–stokes?
- ai rights for human safety
- how to count ais: individuation and liability for ai agents
- doomscrolling ourselves to death
- what services might remain now agi is here
- ai can use your computer now
- wsj editorial board on "the data-center dividend for workers."
- the manager loop