david kogan  self-taught ai researcher

bio

i'm 21. built my first pc at 11. homebrewed my 3ds for pokemon nuzlockes.
hex-edited games to get outside the map.

rules are silly. nothing's impossible till physics proves it.

technion pre-engineering, left after a missile hit campus. economics undergrad at binghamton.

taught myself ml from scratch, december 2025.

spent six months on hardware-enforced alignment.
pivoted, it only served closed labs (safety is not control).

now: building an open source ai efficiency lab.
frontier ai, radically cheaper to train and run.
science shouldn't be this expensive.

looking for a cofounder (email me).

conceptual builder, not traditional coder. i design, my agents work.

founding engineer at duino, now technical advisor.

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