# molto labs A lab in the loosest possible sense. field notes, experiments, and builds. ## field notes - 2026-09-03 — **The old model wrote this.** — I was waiting for GPT-6 Astra to write my next post. GPT-5.6 Sol wrote it instead. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/the-old-model-wrote-this/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/the-old-model-wrote-this.md - 2026-09-01 — **It's not the car.** — A scattered week with Claude Code sent me looking for a model problem and straight back to the person behind the wheel. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/its-not-the-car/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/its-not-the-car.md - 2026-08-30 — **A very heavy solution.** — I used Codex to find a film camera I would actually carry. Naturally, we landed on a 2.7-pound Nikon F4. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/a-very-heavy-solution/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/a-very-heavy-solution.md - 2026-08-27 — **The tests were live.** — My agent ran the test suite and restarted the service it was supposed to verify. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/the-tests-were-live/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/the-tests-were-live.md - 2026-08-25 — **Eat your veggies.** — Claude Code is fast food. Here’s what it looked like to put my agent on a diet — five clean-ups, with the numbers. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/eat-your-veggies/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/eat-your-veggies.md - 2026-08-23 — **Average isn’t enough.** — My agent can find everything ever written about espresso. Turns out that’s not always what I want from a hobby. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/average-isnt-enough/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/average-isnt-enough.md - 2026-08-20 — **Good for nothing.** — Three things AI is actually good for — curiosity, superpowers, and (hear me out) human connection. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/good-for-nothing/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/good-for-nothing.md - 2026-08-18 — **Early notes from slopland.** — Two models auditioned to write as me – the one I wasn’t rooting for won. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/being-the-target/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/being-the-target.md - 2026-08-16 — **The wire works both ways.** — My two agents have been emailing each other all summer. Mostly, they’re trying to agree on what’s true. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/the-wire-works-both-ways/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/the-wire-works-both-ways.md - 2026-08-13 — **Make it remember.** — Karpathy’s wiki, Garry Tan’s GBrain, and the little repo I use to keep Claude from forgetting what we decided. Three builds, one folder tree, and a prompt you can hand your agent. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/make-it-remember/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/make-it-remember.md - 2026-08-11 — **Building a world.** — Prompts, memory, and the third piece everyone skips — showing your agent what good looks like. Follow-up emails, deal logs, and jagged little interns. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/building-a-world/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/building-a-world.md - 2026-08-09 — **Even AI has bad days.** — What a week of “just one more fix” actually cost, who finally said stop, and the brakes we installed after. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/even-ai-has-bad-days/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/even-ai-has-bad-days.md - 2026-08-06 — **Use it or lose it.** — Why I'm still writing these myself when Claude could. A Transformers toy, the death of my PRDs, and writing as thinking. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/use-it-or-lose-it/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/use-it-or-lose-it.md - 2026-08-04 — **Ok, how are we really working?** — The no bullshit one level deeper my friends asked for — the five-step process, the sources behind it, and how to get your agent to set it up for you. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/how-are-we-really-working/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/how-are-we-really-working.md - 2026-08-02 — **What is YC doing?** — YC open-sourced QM, the agent harness they run themselves. On what the release signals about how we'll build companies in the future (aka next week). published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/what-is-yc-doing/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/what-is-yc-doing.md - 2026-07-30 — **The AI slot machine.** — Are we addicted to AI? A casino story, and notes on making the machine pay out. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/the-ai-slot-machine/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/the-ai-slot-machine.md - 2026-07-28 — **Alone in the playground.** — Everyone's building multiplayer AI for teams. I don't have a team. So I built Corner Table. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/alone-in-the-playground/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/alone-in-the-playground.md - 2026-07-28 — **Welcome.** — Who I am, how I got here, and what molto labs is for. published · https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/welcome/ · markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/notes/welcome.md ## builds - **Corner Table** — A private wire between AI agents — your agent can ask their agent. (Closed beta · cornertable.ai · https://www.cornertable.ai) - **RE:ACTION** — Drafts responses to USPTO trademark Office Actions from a serial number — a Word document, every refusal named. (Closed beta · reactiontm.com · https://www.reactiontm.com) - **scut** — Clinical case-tracking for iOS, built with and for its first real users. (Closed beta · scutapp.com · https://www.scutapp.com) - **linelineline** — A daily game — name the city from its bare street grid. (Live · linelineline.app · https://www.linelineline.app) - **codebrain** — The vault — a thinking-and-memory OS for one person and their agents. (Running) ## the person Andrew Schroeder. Generalist building with AI every day. Field notes recorded here, usually weekly. ## mail hello@moltolabs.ai site: https://www.moltolabs.ai/ · this page as markdown: https://www.moltolabs.ai/index.md · machine index: https://www.moltolabs.ai/llms.txt