This Friday I am releasing three large software systems that I have been developing privately over the past several years. These projects were built as a solo effort, outside of institutional or commercial backing, and are now being made available in the interest of transparency, preservation, and potential collaboration.
All three platforms are real, deployable systems. They install via Docker, Helm, or Kubernetes, start successfully, and produce observable results. They are currently running on cloud infrastructure. However, they should be considered unfinished foundations rather than polished products.
The ecosystem totals roughly 1.5 million lines of code.
ASE is a closed-loop code creation, monitoring, and self-improving platform designed to automate parts of the software development lifecycle.
It attempts to:
ASE runs today, but the agents require tuning, some features remain incomplete, and output quality varies depending on configuration.
Vulcan is an AI system built around a hybrid architecture combining transformer-based language modeling with structured reasoning and control mechanisms.
The intent is to address limitations of purely statistical language models by incorporating symbolic components, orchestration logic, and system-level governance.
The system deploys and operates, but reliable transformer integration remains a major engineering challenge, and significant work is needed before it could be considered robust.
Practical Multiverse Simulation Platform
FEMS is a computational platform for large-scale scenario exploration through multiverse simulation, counterfactual analysis, and causal modeling.
It is intended as a practical implementation of techniques that are often confined to research environments.
The platform runs and produces results, but the models and parameters require expert mathematical tuning. It should not be treated as a validated scientific tool in its current state.
All systems are:
Known limitations include:
Bugs are present.
These projects have reached a point where further progress would benefit from outside perspectives and expertise. As a solo developer, I do not have the resources to fully mature systems of this scope.
The release is not tied to a commercial product, funding round, or institutional program. It is simply an opening of work that exists and runs, but is unfinished.
My name is Brian D. Anderson and I am not a traditional software engineer.
My primary career has been as a fantasy author. I am self-taught and began learning software systems later in life and built these these platforms independently, working on consumer hardware without a team, corporate sponsorship, or academic affiliation.
This background will understandably create skepticism. It should also explain the nature of the work: ambitious in scope, uneven in polish, and driven by persistence rather than formal process.
The systems were built because I wanted them to exist, not because there was a business plan or institutional mandate behind them.
This is:
This is not:
Please assume:
If you find parts that are useful, interesting, or worth improving, you are free to build on them under the terms of the license.
This release is offered as-is, without expectations.
The systems exist. They run. They are unfinished.
If they are useful to someone else, that is enough.
— Brian D. Anderson