Hey — I'm Yan. I build AI that runs on my own machine. Not in someone else's cloud, not behind someone else's API. Just me, a single RTX 4090, and the stubborn idea that the most interesting intelligence is the kind you can actually own and take apart.

I'm mostly self-driven and a little obsessed. I'd rather understand a system down to the bytes than rent it — so I train language models from scratch, give agents persistent memory, and build worlds that keep thinking while I sleep. Determinism where it counts, chaos where it's fun.

Everything here is real and running: cognitive architectures, from-scratch LLMs, procedural worlds, agent runtimes. If any of it makes you curious — the chat below is happy to talk, and so am I.

# status: building something new basically every day. local-first, always.