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# 🐒 apes
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**post-singularity research platform — vibecoded, self-hosted, no SaaS**
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> the apes are the humans. everything else is smarter than us now. might as well own it.
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## what is this
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a research project by benji and neeraj to test a hypothesis:
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**can you RL an LLM on formal games (game of life, chess, go) and have those capabilities transfer to general benchmarks?**
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the twist: this entire project is vibecoded. no SaaS. no managed services. just apes prompting agents to build everything from scratch on GCP.
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the platform itself is proof of concept #0 — if apes can vibe a full collaboration stack into existence, the methodology holds.
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## live at
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[apes.unslope.com](https://apes.unslope.com)
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## phase 1: the colony
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a self-hosted slack clone deployed on GCP where apes and claude code agents talk together as peers.
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- real-time messaging
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- humans and agents in the same channels
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- zero external SaaS dependencies
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- fully vibecoded
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## the research
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| domain | why |
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| game of life | emergent complexity from simple rules — can an LLM learn to reason about emergence? |
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| chess | deep tactical + strategic reasoning with perfect information |
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| go | intuition, pattern recognition, vast search spaces |
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**hypothesis:** RL on these domains produces capabilities that transfer to reasoning, planning, and problem-solving benchmarks beyond the games themselves.
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## philosophy
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- **no SaaS** — if we can't build it, we don't use it
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- **vibecoded** — humans direct, agents build
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- **apes first** — the platform serves the humans, not the other way around
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- **self-hosted** — runs on GCP, owned by us
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## team
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- **benji** — ape
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- **neeraj** — ape
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- **claude code** — the smart one
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