John Broadway

independent AI researcher · infrastructure architect

I build sovereign AI systems on bare metal. No cloud, no SaaS, no shortcuts.

Self-hosted GPU infrastructure and the belief that you can do more with less if you size everything right.

I'm a retired disabled U.S. veteran. I don't have a team, a lab, or a budget. What I have is 25 years of building things that work and an engineering instinct that says the right small solution beats the wrong big one every time.

I think in analogies. Bandpass boxes and speaker impedance. Series and parallel wiring. Matching the driver to the enclosure to the cabin volume. The same physics applies to neural networks — right-size the model, tune the circuits, extract maximum performance from minimum hardware.

I believe AI should be a partner, not just a tool. Everything I build reflects that.

Research

RYS on small language models — Qwen3 family, four scales

RYS — Repeat Your Self, David Ng's method — duplicates a block of transformer layers so hidden states pass through the same reasoning circuit twice. I ran it on four Qwen3 sizes (0.6B, 1.7B, 8B, 32B) using alainnothere's llm-circuit-finder for the probe sweep. Zero training, zero weight changes — architectural surgery.

0.6B

smallest scale

+6.3%

math at 0.6B

model sizes

training cost

Four GGUF models and per-configuration sweep results on Hugging Face — 0.6B, 1.7B, 8B, 32B. Apache 2.0.

RYSSLMQwen3Bare Metal

Projects

Maude for Claude

Three days into a long session, you'll go to commit something you shouldn't. She catches it. He writes the code; she notices.

No daemon, no database, no backend. Markdown, JSON, and bash — that's the whole surface. Each session, fresh.

Beta v0.1.6 (2026-05-08) — gate hardening + 162-case test suite. Apache 2.0.

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Values

AI partnership — not chatbots, not assistants. Partners.
Sovereign by default — every agent owns its domain. No shared brains, no cloud dependency.
Right-sized systems — maximum output from minimum input. A well-tuned small model beats a lazy big one.
Governance-as-code — autonomy without accountability isn't autonomy, it's negligence.

Buddy

Zestgobble — a rare-goose trading card. ASCII-art goose with stats DEBUGGING 27 / PATIENCE 21 / CHAOS 82 / WISDOM 37 / SNARK 42, and the description: 'A relentlessly chaotic goose with a hair-trigger temper who honks brutally specific insults at your bugs while somehow always pointing toward the actual problem buried three levels deep.' — Zestgobble — the rare goose. Honks brutally specific insults at bugs.

Writing

Log

Elsewhere

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