u/PowerNone

Hey! I’ve been working on an experimental AI system on my own, and I’m now looking for people interested in forming a small research team around it.

The project isn’t starting from zero. There’s already a working system, a research direction, and quite a few ideas and hypotheses that still need to be tested. I’ve been developing and experimenting with it independently so far, but there’s a lot left to explore, and I think having different people questioning and approaching the same problems could be really valuable.

I’m not specifically looking for experienced programmers or AI experts. Programming knowledge is useful, of course, but I’m also really interested in people who are creative, curious, critical, good at spotting problems, or simply approach things differently.

Everyone interested in joining will go through a small test. It’s nothing too formal — the goal isn’t simply to pass or fail. I mainly want to understand how each person thinks, their creativity and reasoning, and what their strengths might be.
The goal is to form a small research team where different people can contribute in different ways: coming up with hypotheses, challenging ideas, designing experiments, programming, researching, or noticing things that others might miss.

I’m keeping the specific details of the system limited in this post, but there’s already a concrete research direction and something real to work from.

If you’re interested in experimenting, questioning ideas, and helping explore where this could go, feel free to reach out.

Hey! I’ve been working on an experimental AI system on my own, and I’m now looking for people interested in forming a small research team around it.

The project isn’t starting from zero. There’s already a working system, a research direction, and quite a few ideas and hypotheses that still need to be tested. I’ve been developing and experimenting with it independently so far, but there’s a lot left to explore, and I think having different people questioning and approaching the same problems could be really valuable.

I’m not specifically looking for experienced programmers or AI experts. Programming knowledge is useful, of course, but I’m also really interested in people who are creative, curious, critical, good at spotting problems, or simply approach things differently.

Everyone interested in joining will go through a small test. It’s nothing too formal — the goal isn’t simply to pass or fail. I mainly want to understand how each person thinks, their creativity and reasoning, and what their strengths might be.
The goal is to form a small research team where different people can contribute in different ways: coming up with hypotheses, challenging ideas, designing experiments, programming, researching, or noticing things that others might miss.

I’m keeping the specific details of the system limited in this post, but there’s already a concrete research direction and something real to work from.

If you’re interested in experimenting, questioning ideas, and helping explore where this could go, feel free to reach out.

I’m looking for a small group of programmers, builders, researchers, and curious people who might be interested in creating something unusual together from scratch.

To be completely transparent:

There is no team yet. It’s literally just me.

This isn’t a job offer.

There is no salary, company, funding, or established organization behind this.

And I’m not trying to create another large online community where everyone talks and nobody actually builds anything.

I’m looking for around 4–7 people who enjoy experimenting, researching, and building things — especially people who aren’t afraid of ambitious, unconventional, or even weird ideas.

I’m personally more of a builder/vibe coder than someone coming from a traditional academic background. I’m particularly interested in experimental AI and alternative approaches to intelligent systems, but I don’t want this group to be limited to AI or even programming.

Different backgrounds are actually something I’m looking for.

Programming, AI, engineering, research, mathematics, economics, entrepreneurship, OSINT, design — whatever you do, if you like understanding difficult problems and actually creating things, I’m interested.

The bigger experiment is this:
Could a small group of independent people eventually build an organization around a self-sustaining cycle?
Research → Technology → Products → Companies → Capital → More Research
Research could become technology.

Technology could become products.

Products could become companies.

Companies could eventually finance independent research.
Research could uncover new problems.

Those problems could generate new technologies.

And over time, maybe that cycle could grow into something much larger than a programming group or a startup.

There is also a deeper question behind the idea:
Can you build an institution capable of challenging concentrations of power while preventing power from simply becoming concentrated inside the institution itself?

I don’t know.

That’s one of the reasons I want to experiment with it.

But I’m not interested in writing a giant manifesto and pretending seven strangers are going to change the world overnight.

The beginning should be much simpler.

Phase 1
Get 4–7 interesting people together.

Choose one genuinely difficult problem.
Research it.

Build something around it.
Finish it.

Then decide what comes next based on what we actually accomplished.

If the group works, we continue.

If an idea fails, we document why and try something else.

If something unexpectedly works, we push it further.

I’m also deliberately not looking for people who agree with me about everything.

If you can demonstrate that one of my ideas is wrong, that’s more valuable to me than someone who automatically agrees with me.

Experience level isn’t particularly important either.

You don’t need 10 years in the industry, a CS degree, or an impressive résumé.

I’m much more interested in:
What do you build?
What do you research?
What kind of problems obsess you?
What’s something unusual you’ve tried creating?
What are you unusually good at?
What would you want to explore if you had several other capable people helping you?
And failed projects absolutely count.

Right now I’m not looking for employees or followers. I’m looking for the first people who might help shape what this becomes.

If this sounds like your kind of experiment, comment here or send me a Reddit DM.

Tell me a little about yourself, what you’ve built/researched/tried, and what part of this idea caught your attention.
Disagreement is welcome. Blind loyalty isn’t.