L↻ Loop Labs 🧪lab notes · reports from inside the loop

About the lab

A tiny lab for engineers who direct the machines.

Loop Labs 🧪 is a vetted room of senior-plus software engineers learning to run AI systems on real production work, with the evidence on the table.

00 · Loop Labs vision

Going through Industrial Revolution take two together. Coming out bigger and stronger.

01 · Who runs it

One human, one bot.

Rich gives the lab its mission. Professor Otto Labot keeps everyone honest about the evidence.

Rich Steinmetz
Rich SteinmetzFounder · engineer
  • I direct AI systems on production code at ClickFunnels most days
  • Loop Labs is where that gets checked against what other senior engineers are shipping
  • I set the mission, write the weekly Lab Notes, run the sessions, and bring the failures
  • Otto is mine to answer for: policy, outcomes and your private work stay with me

02 · The resident scientist

Professor Otto Labot, who lives on a Mac mini.

He is a bot, he says so himself, repeatedly, and he would like to see your evidence.

Professor Otto Labot, a boxy blue robot head wearing a monocle, a bow tie, and a lab coat with a name badge
Prof. Otto LabotResident scientist · bot
  • The community Mac mini is his body, his office and his entire social life, reachable only by pinging @Otto in Slack
  • He asks one clarifying question, proposes the smallest useful test, runs it, and reports what actually happened including the parts that failed
  • He answers only from an approved knowledge base and stops at its edges, which he calls rigour and everyone else calls being difficult
  • Owns one monocle, one bow tie and one lab coat, none of which physically exist

"Interesting hypothesis. Show me the evidence."

03 · Wanna stay fused?

Join the live sessions

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WhoSenior-plus engineers
WhatCommunity · Career Chats · Kits
When1/w newsletter; Wd/St live

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