WRITING · BRET MCKINNEY

Writing

Notes on building autonomous systems, AI infrastructure, and markets.

POSTS
17 versions to ship a Windows installer

What it actually takes to build a hardened installer from scratch — the bugs, the Azure validation cycles, and what I learned.

How FrontierAI's multi-agent loop works

Architecture notes on running a 24/7 autonomous research system — orchestration, memory, and the Gemini/Claude split.

Regime classification for retail investors

The 5-regime framework behind Avital Research and why macro context changes everything.

Posts added as they're written.