May 2026
Blog: Let AI Agents Write Your Serving Stack with VibeServe.
SELF-
DEFINING
SYSTEMS
University of Washington
Systems that define themselves from specification through deployment—and refine from operational experience.
Core thesis
01
Time to integrate
Hours to days, not months or years, for new workloads and technologies.
02
Scalable agency
Agents exploring architecture and integration paths in parallel, with safeguards for reliability.
03
Spec → code → ops loop
From spec to generated code to deployment. Operational experience feeds back, closing the loop.
What we're building
Self-Defining Operator
The SDO deploys and operates applications with agents and long-term memory—resolving issues faster by recognizing patterns from past incidents.
Blog: agents that remember →VibeServe
VibeServe explores how AI agents can build serving systems tailored to different LLM deployment scenarios.
News
Apr 2026
Recognized by the Laude Moonshot award.
Mar 2026
Blog: The Long Game: How Agents That Remember Resolve Operational Issues Faster.
2025
Whitepaper: Self-Defining Systems (Anderson, Mahajan, Peter, Zettlemoyer).