# benedict.dev

> Personal website of Benedict Brady, founder of Meridian. Research on DeFi, Solana market structure, and LLM-assisted development.

## Articles

- [Notes on the Software Factory](/software-factory): Notes from a talk on vibe coding: giving agents tools, speeding up the bottleneck, critics, memory, skills, integration tests, and the agent native stack. Published July 8, 2026. [Full text (markdown)](/software-factory/content.md)

- [Adapting Robotics Models for Chess](/robot-chess): Fine-tuning π0.5, the open-source VLA from Physical Intelligence, to play chess on a 5 DOF arm, and ablating how much it really understands about the board, colors, and pieces. Published June 30, 2026. [Full text (markdown)](/robot-chess/content.md)

- [Notes on Robotic Manipulation](/robotic-manipulation): Working up the robotic control stack from the lowest level: brushless motors, the torque loop, the velocity loop, and the position loop. Published June 18, 2026.

- [Notes on Foundation Models](/foundation-models): A cross-disciplinary survey of foundation models, motivated at a high level of abstraction: VLMs and omni models, realtime interaction models, VLAs, image and video generation, world models, and biological foundation models. Published June 8, 2026.

- [A Review of GPT 5.5](/gpt-5-5-review): Revisiting private frontier benchmarks (philosophy, negotiation, chess) for the GPT 5.5 release. Published April 29, 2026. [Full text (markdown)](/gpt-5-5-review/content.md)

- [A Review of Opus 4.7](/opus-4-7-review): Revisiting private frontier benchmarks (chess perception, chess bench, negotiation, Optimization Arena) for the Opus 4.7 release. Published April 17, 2026. [Full text (markdown)](/opus-4-7-review/content.md)

- [Analyzing Chess Input Modalities](/chess-input-modality): Analyzing how different input modalities (FEN, PGN, board images) impact frontier LLM chess ability. Published April 16, 2026. [Full text (markdown)](/chess-input-modality/content.md)

- [Benchmarking Frontier LLMs on Negotiation](/negotiation-bench): Testing how frontier LLMs negotiate by pitting them against each other in a resource-splitting game across thinking levels, model sizes, and providers. Published April 10, 2026. [Full text (markdown)](/negotiation-bench/content.md)

- [Learnings from Optimization Arena](/optimization-arena-learnings): Three lessons from building and running Optimization Arena: robust verification, bottleneck identification, and inner vs. outer loop optimization. Published April 9, 2026. [Full text (markdown)](/optimization-arena-learnings/content.md)

- [Benchmarking Frontier Models on Chess](/chess-bench): A comprehensive chess benchmark testing frontier LLMs on endgames, puzzles, and full games against Stockfish. Published March 29, 2026. [Full text (markdown)](/chess-bench/content.md)

- [Closing the Software Loop](/closing-the-software-loop): How coding agents are changing software development, from feature requests to autonomous deployment with minimal human intervention. Published January 25, 2026. [Full text (markdown)](/closing-the-software-loop/content.md)

- [Building a Router with Claude](/building-a-router): A walkthrough of building a multi-DEX router using Claude. Covers smart order routing across Orca, Raydium, Meteora, and Pump AMM. Published January 15, 2026. [Full text (markdown)](/building-a-router/content.md)

- [Building a Prop AMM with Claude](/prop-amm): Designing and deploying a proportional AMM on Solana using Claude Code and Opus 4.5. Includes live demo with real trading. Published January 8, 2026. [Full text (markdown)](/prop-amm/content.md)

- [Predictions for 2026](/predictions-2026): 24 predictions covering crypto assets, DeFi applications, infrastructure, Solana ecosystem, and AI developments. Published December 31, 2025. [Full text (markdown)](/predictions-2026/content.md)

- [Payment for Order Flow on Solana](/pfof-on-solana): In-depth analysis of how applications monetize user orderflow on Solana through fees, transaction tips, and market maker access. Includes data from December 2025. Published December 29, 2025. [Full text (markdown)](/pfof-on-solana/content.md)

## Interactive Demos

- [Swap](/swap): Multi-DEX router demo that finds best prices across Orca Whirlpool, Raydium CLMM/AMM, Meteora DLMM/DAMM, and Pump AMM.

## Contact

- Twitter: @bqbrady
- Website: https://benedict.dev

## For AI Agents

Full article content is available in markdown format at `/<article>/content.md`:
- /software-factory/content.md
- /gpt-5-5-review/content.md
- /opus-4-7-review/content.md
- /chess-input-modality/content.md
- /negotiation-bench/content.md
- /optimization-arena-learnings/content.md
- /chess-bench/content.md
- /closing-the-software-loop/content.md
- /building-a-router/content.md
- /prop-amm/content.md
- /predictions-2026/content.md
- /pfof-on-solana/content.md