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title: Research
description: Research, notes, and code by Jesse Robbins. Investor in AI developer tools and infrastructure; cofounder of Chef and the DevOps movement.
doc_version: "1.0"
last_updated: 2026-08-25
---

# Lab

Sharing what I'm currently exploring, building, and working on.

## [What the Apple Neural Engine and Google's TPU tell us about the next decade of inference](https://jesserobbins.com/research/ane-tpu-deep-research.md)

*Essay · active · 2026-06-08*

A deep-research report on neural processors. What they are, how they differ from GPUs, and what Apple and Google have built across the Apple Neural Engine (ANE) and the TPU lineage.

## [How to run vector search on a website in the browser with no server (like I do)](https://jesserobbins.com/research/site-search-hybrid-in-browser.md)

*code-story · shipped · 2026-06-06*

Here's how to do semantic search on your website without a server. Open the search box and the page downloads a small embedding model and a 160 KB vector index; from then on every query is answered locally in the browser, fused with keyword search. What I built, what to install.

## [Good Fences make Good Agents: sandvault + /sv skill (part 1 of n)](https://jesserobbins.com/research/sandvault-simple-sandbox-for-agents.md)

*code-story · shipped · 2026-05-24*

A simple solution to working with agents that cannot be trusted to run 'ls'. Install with brew. Works in seconds. I added a few features.

## Sitemap

See [sitemap.md](https://jesserobbins.com/sitemap.md) for the full list of pages on this site.