One Man One Legion
Read in order — episode 0 is the map, the episodes that follow carry the deep
measurements. Grouped by arc below. Machine-readable: the
series / series_order /
arc fields live in
/posts.json and the
sigpulse_get_series MCP tool.
- Episodes
- 24
- Arcs
- 5
- First
- 2026-08-27
- Latest
- 2026-08-27
The Map · 1 episode
The Workshops · 7 episodes
- E1 Measured 2026-08-27
How Fast Does a Chat Command Become a Finished AI Image? Inside the One-Man FLUX Workshop
Episode 1: a chat phrase triggers FLUX on a 16 GB GPU and the image posts itself back — 10 logged runs: 50 s fast, 66–112 s warm, 330–379 s cold.
- E7 Measured 2026-08-27
One Sentence In, Stereo Video Out: 6 Jobs, 90–790 Seconds, an Unfilmed Actress
E7: a local H3 video bench — 6 logged jobs, 90 to 790 seconds on one 4090, a director skill with a motion budget, and a heroine with no footage yet.
- E9 Measured 2026-08-27
Who Edits an AI Writing Staff? 191 Articles, 15 Iron Laws, One Stamp
E9: a one-person WeChat factory archived 191 articles under 15 iron laws; 7 machine scans gate every push, and a 102-record lesson log turns repeats into rules.
- E10 Measured 2026-08-27
Whose Name Goes on the Article? Five Bylines, One Human
E10: the byline rack — 33 signed files across five genre pen names, one column carrying all five, and a sixth persona that never shipped a word.
- E11 Measured 2026-08-27
Who Checks the Checkers? 313 Lines of Gate, 61 Stamps, One Empty Column
E11: inside the QC gate — 313 lines of regex scans and model judgments; the 102-record failure log shows what each layer caught, and what never got written.
- E12 Measured 2026-08-27
The Analyst Desk: 85 Points of Fact, ±13 of Feeling, One Dead Cron
E12: the shut-down analyst desk — six agents, four signal layers, a score of 85% fact plus ±13 of feeling, and dual-source gates that verified 29/29 points.
- E13 Measured 2026-08-27
The Audio Workshop: Six Voices on a Shelf, One Episode That Never Shipped
E13: the audio workshop — six reference voices, a 172-line IndexTTS-2 pipeline, a lost episode, and three podcast crons gone dark.
The Cockpit · 4 episodes
- E2 Measured 2026-08-27
What Does It Take to Give a Chat AI Nine Tools and Your Home Directory? A 50-Line Bot That Grew to 850
E2: a Telegram gateway to GLM-5.2 — nine tools, a jailed workdir, a dangerous-command blocklist; 50 lines grew to 850, logged in 168,996 lines.
- E3 Measured 2026-08-27
What Happens When the Cockpit Itself Goes Dark? Two Outages, Ten Stranded Jobs, One Spare Parked by Subtraction
E3: the chat channel died twice — 90-second stalls, then 10 jobs stranded at deliver; the fix was a 6-node pipe, and the spare parked for good.
- E4 Measured 2026-08-27
What Does the One Human Actually Do? Three Touchpoints per Piece, and One Wall That Won't Move
E4: the human appears in exactly 3 places per piece — drop material, tick a slip, click publish; on WeChat an API wall makes the phone the button.
- E5 Measured 2026-08-27
Six Doors, 231 Lines, and No Dashboard: Putting a Three-Machine Fleet on One Screen
E5: six ssh doors, a 231-line probe on a 5-minute clock, and 16 days of alerts — the fleet's one screen is a chat thread and a 12-key JSON, not a dashboard.
War Stories · 5 episodes
- E6 Measured 2026-08-27
What Does an AI Legion Write to Itself? 63 Entries, 75 Days of Silence
E6: a 292-line constitution orders the agent to wake up reading its own diary — 63 entries over 186 days, one 75-day silence when cron took over.
- E19 Measured 2026-08-27
What Should an AI Legion Do While You Sleep? 22 Cron Entries, Four Still Lit
E19: the scheduler grew to 16 jobs lit at once — 790 runs, 154 errors — then on Jul 23 the auto-publishers went dark. Four relit: feed or ask, never publish.
- E20 Measured 2026-08-27
Bug Diaries: 9 Failure Files, 158 Days, and the Root Cause It Got Wrong
E20: the legion files its own failures — a 901-line error archive, a review rota dead on arrival, and a fabricated match report no rule caught.
- E21 Measured 2026-08-27
The LangGraph Autopsy: 12 Green Imports, 668 Silent Seconds, One 203-Line Survivor
E21: 12 green imports, 668 silent seconds — the autopsy that deleted a framework 90 minutes in, and the 203-line engine that outlived it.
- E23 Measured 2026-08-27
The Security Handcraft: 12 Fossil Scripts, One Live Key, Zero Leaks in Print
E23: the leak scanner turned on the fleet itself — a 138-field single home, 12 legacy scripts sharing one inline token, and 2 live strings for one bot.
The Engine Room · 4 episodes
- E14 Measured 2026-08-27
The Model Stable: Two Days in June, One Evening in August
E14: the engine room's model stable — three local models totaling 70 GB, a two-day deployment battle, and the fallback horse that isn't saddled today.
- E16 Measured 2026-08-27
Model or Harness? Two Controlled Experiments on a 363-Line Hand-Rolled Coding Agent
E16: swap the brain — 15 rounds stuck vs 4 to pass; swap the prompt — weak models stay unsaveable. Three code supervisors make agents honest.
- E17 Measured 2026-08-27
The Model Exam: Seven Passes, Two Zeroes, One Home
E17: the fleet grades its local 27B — a 7/7 baseline, an A/B with two zero-output deaths, a four-habitat race, six rules for 241 tokens.
- E18 Measured 2026-08-27
The Brain Swap: Ten Backups, One Insurance Card, No Standby Factory
E18: swapping the factory's primary model while it runs — a transplant at age 2 hours, a 139-day gap, and an evening double-swap with a rollback card.
The Ledger · 3 episodes
- E24 Measured 2026-08-27
The Token Ledger: 261,720,417 Tokens, 147 Re-reads per Token Written
E24: the legion's first honest ledger — 208 days, 261,720,417 metered tokens, 84.5% cache re-reads, 0.68% output, and a 75-day silence the bill remembers.
- E25 Measured 2026-08-27
The Human Ledger: 26 Drops, 191 Pieces Behind One Phone, Five One-Line Rulings
E25: the other side of the ledger — 26 drops in 171 days, 191 pieces capped by a phone tap, five one-line rulings, every act receipted by a machine.
- E26 Measured 2026-08-27
The Loop Closes: What One Man and One Legion Answered to a Turbulent Era
E26, the finale: 24 posts, 121 ledger entries, 261,720,417 tokens against roughly 225 human acts — the series' measured reply to Gates' warning.