the-machine — MenFem's own agentic system
The ongoing build: MenFem's own agentic system — the master-session model, skills, and workflows that run research, trading, and publishing. The "98% harness, 2% model" thesis made real by building the agentic loops it rests on.
In-labThe system itself — it runs MenFem. Code lives in the menfem repo; documented in docs/architecture/the-machine.md.
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The problem
MenFem's central contrarian bet is that value accrues to the harness, not the raw model. The most honest way to hold that thesis is to build the harness.
The approach
Grow the orchestration layer — the master session that spawns agents, the skills that encode taste, the workflows that fan out — as documented in docs/architecture/the-machine.md.
Decisions & trade-offs
- —The procedure is the product: every judgment mistake improves a skill file, not just an apology.
- —Draft-first everywhere — the human keeps the publish / send / push gate.
Where it stands
Live and compounding — the system that produced this very surface.
Build log
The running diary will appear here as /notebook entries once the build starts.