Giving Coding Agents Something to Measure

What I changed in our RoboCup SSL control stack this summer so a coding agent could judge a change in minutes: 16x faster path planning, 11.5x smaller replays, and tools for finding stalled matches.

October 8, 2026 · 9 min · Isaac Yong
The Agentic Strategy Search Loop

Scaling Strategy Search, Evaluators, and the Agentic Coding Workflow

Our bet on scaling robot sports: why we believe coding agents can search strategy space better than human developers, and the infrastructure, debugging tools, and evaluation benches we built to let them hill-climb.

September 19, 2026 · 7 min · Isaac Yong
The OS Scheduler Model: Tactics as processes, Strategy as kernel scheduler, and Robots as CPU cores

Strategy = Tactics × Orchestration

Why Behavior Trees broke down for multi-agent coordination, how modeling our scheduler after an OS kernel solved dynamic regrouping, and the three safety invariants that eliminate race conditions.

September 18, 2026 · 13 min · Isaac Yong
First Order Robotics team at the Great Exhibition Road Festival

Leading Software for a Robot Football Team

An architectural overview of our RoboCup Small Size League robot control stack, lessons from our Great Exhibition Road Festival milestone, and open challenges as we scale to a full 6v6 squad.

September 17, 2026 · 11 min · Isaac Yong