Four engineers.One hundred AI workers.Every decision stays human.

Software engineeringSystems built, reviewed and owned by people.
Artificial intelligenceLocal models, agent workflows, AI-assisted engineering.
Game developmentGames treated as systems engineering.
ResearchIndependent writing and computational experiments.

OBLIVION is a software engineering organization. It builds software, AI systems and games with a small group of programmers and a larger group of specialized AI workers.

The programmers set direction, design the architecture, review the work and keep final control. The AI workers write code, run tests, analyze, research, document and review under that direction. Our flagship system, Angra, is the layer that lets several local models work on one objective instead of one model answering one prompt.

A 104-member organizational model

CONCEPTUAL

Human layer 4

Four programmers. They decide what gets built, design the architecture, review every change and own the final result.

AI worker layer 100

One hundred AI-agent workers: specialized model or agent instances, not people. This shows the structure of the model. It does not claim that all of them run at once.

ResearchEngineeringTestingAnalysisDocumentationSecurityPlanningReviewGame developmentOperations

Roles are a conceptual grouping. No per-role counts are claimed.

A model generates. Angra coordinates.

Angra is an OBLIVION-built coordination layer for compatible local AI models running through LM Studio and Bionic. One model becomes a worker. Several models become a workforce, with a person in control.

Angra artwork: a stepped terracotta structure with black openings between leaves and a cell-tissue slice, on cream paper
Angra visual identity.

What Angra is

  • A coordination layer between you and the local models you already run.
  • Operator-controlled: you choose which models connect and what they may do.
  • Built to split an objective, route the parts and check the result.

What Angra is not

  • Not an AI model. It does not generate; the models do.
  • Not a hosted service or a distributed network.
  • Not a claim of autonomous operation. A person stays in the loop.
Operator-controlled connectivityDESIGNED FORA design principle of Angra.
Scoped permissions, least privilegeDESIGNED FORA design principle of Angra.
Auditability and fail-closed behaviorDESIGNED FORA design principle, not a security certification.
Pipeline demo belowSIMULATEDNo models run in the demo.
Networked, multi-machine operationPLANNEDFuture architecture. Not a production network today.

From objective to output

SIMULATED / CONCEPTUALSelect a stage, or run the sequence. Nothing here is live data.

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    Founder and principal engineer

    Bardiya Shokri

    Founder and lead programmer of OBLIVION. He sets technical direction and system architecture, and is responsible for Angra and for the organization's computational experiments.

    Within OBLIVION's model, direction, review, verification and final control stay with the people. That rule applies to him first.

    Role
    Founder, lead programmer
    Focus
    Software engineering, AI systems, system architecture
    Projects
    Angra, The Recursive Threshold, OBLIVION
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    Framed portrait of Bardiya Shokri on a gallery wall

    Research

    Independent OBLIVION writing, published on Medium. New entries are added to the ARTICLES list in this file.

    STATIC LIST
    Recursive self-improvementAutonomous agentsAI infrastructureCyber riskHuman controlAI governance

    Open source

    Public repositories from the OBLIVION GitHub account, newest activity first.

    EXTERNAL LINKAll repositories

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