Cristiano Mazzella

ML engineer, dungeon master, and a reluctant starter of things I said I was too lazy to start. Constitutionally unable to leave anything closed, source included.

Work

• Nightshift2026
  A harness for long-horizon agent work, dogfooded on itself.
• gitgud2026
  Keep your coding skills sharp in the age of AI.
• ardesia-gguf2026
  Fine-tuning a ~35B MoE inside 16 GiB of VRAM.
• ardesia-unsloth2026
  A config-driven alignment pipeline: SFT → DPO → GRPO.
• Temporal Credit for Memory2026
  Giving a memory write the credit it earns, long after it earns it.

More on each →

Writing

• How I run a coding agent overnight without waking up to 8 hours of retries
  An iteration ends in four ways, and three of them are the run deciding to stop. How the verifier, the rails and the escalation rules got built, and what the evals actually measured.

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