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Notes from
the build.

What we learn building a way back for people who code with agents. Short, plain, and honest about what is built and what is planned.

  1. No. 01

    Your agent's rewind does not fully cover the shell

    Built in checkpoints track the agent's own file edits. The biggest changes happen in the shell, where the rewind cannot always see.

    5 min
  2. No. 02

    A save point should prove it works

    A backup tells you what your files looked like. Why every save point gets a verdict, and the rules that keep that verdict honest.

    5 min
  3. No. 03

    What Time Machine does not do

    Databases, deploys, secret values, container isolation and more. Everything we do not cover today, in one place.

    5 min
  4. No. 04

    Why a safety net makes people braver

    Easy reversal, loss aversion, the peak end rule and the 66 day habit. The research behind the design, and why we refuse streaks.

    6 min
  5. No. 05

    Building Time Machine in the open: the plan, and why we will raise

    Where we are, how gates decide what comes next, and what raising money would pay for.

    5 min

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