Jacob Kopczynski

An independent researcher, and generalist programmer with backend and SRE tendencies. Also an intermittent writer, because I clearly need more time at my keyboard.

Some links:

• Metagame 2026, a games convention in Berkeley; I'm Chief of Staff for the Metagame Megagame and its design team.
• Peer Preservation red teaming: Recent research, found fragility of some prompting experiments on frontier models; write-up here
• Paper Watch; a tool for aggregating various high-quality references to (AI safety) papers and surfacing them with quality estimates for a paper reading group.
• Grand Prix editor; a plaintext and code editor tied to Google Drive, made with Monaco.
• Blogging: Substack and microposts.
• My main GitHub page.
• My LinkedIn.

And some older links:

• QR Code Puzzle; puzzle hunt puzzles from arbitrary (small) QR codes