Simone Systems ResearchFree hands-on AI and computing lessons, useful experiments and independent research by Jonathan Simone. Consumption Engine is our main research project, in development.https://simoneresearch.com/Progress: Saving and resuming a simulationhttps://simoneresearch.com/evidence/progress/#2026-10-07https://simoneresearch.com/evidence/progress/#2026-10-07A checked save/load/continuation feature, separate research progress and what has not established a general benefit.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTProgress: Teaching an AI agent a project's ruleshttps://simoneresearch.com/evidence/progress/#2026-10-07-project-ruleshttps://simoneresearch.com/evidence/progress/#2026-10-07-project-rulesSynthetic project rules, a stronger baseline, and a real-task comparison that changed the next research question.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTProgress: September 30, 2026https://simoneresearch.com/evidence/progress/#2026-09-30https://simoneresearch.com/evidence/progress/#2026-09-30Local ingestion and evidence delivery, and the procedure-study results.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTProgress: September 27, 2026https://simoneresearch.com/evidence/progress/#2026-09-27https://simoneresearch.com/evidence/progress/#2026-09-27One working day of the team's decision ledger: 34 decisions, each with its bar stated first.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTProgress: September 24, 2026https://simoneresearch.com/evidence/progress/#2026-09-24https://simoneresearch.com/evidence/progress/#2026-09-24Local demonstration with fictional documents.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTClaude Desktop “Windows cannot access” after closehttps://simoneresearch.com/blog/claude-desktop-access-denied-after-close/https://simoneresearch.com/blog/claude-desktop-access-denied-after-close/On one Windows 11 PC, Claude Desktop launch results and Event 208 changed when two permission entries were removed and restored.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:00:00 GMTChatGPT Desktop “Windows cannot access” after closehttps://simoneresearch.com/blog/chatgpt-desktop-access-denied-after-close/https://simoneresearch.com/blog/chatgpt-desktop-access-denied-after-close/On one Windows 11 PC, ChatGPT Desktop launch results changed when two Windows permission entries were added, removed and restored.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThroughput is not progresshttps://simoneresearch.com/blog/throughput-is-not-progress/https://simoneresearch.com/blog/throughput-is-not-progress/An author-run study of 1,979 commits linked to pull requests in one repository, examining changed files, recorded author identities and review records.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT