Coordinal: A Postmortem. (opens in new tab)

cart;horse: Most startups fail, this one did too. Tried too much with too little, with a little too much ego.Coordinal Research's goal was to build an automated safety research platform. A researcher writes "Replicate X result from paper Y with tweak Z" and the system provisions a sandboxed compute environment, gathers context, writes code, runs experiments, and returns a research report plus oversight trail.The bet was that AI-accelerated research is coming whether we like it or not, and hav...