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erikbethke

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Erik Bethke. 30 years of making online games — created Starfleet Command and GoPets, led Mafia Wars and FarmVille at Zynga.

Before that: NASA/JPL (Galileo, Cassini). Sailed the Caribbean for 3 years with my family. Austin, TX.

Now: CEO of Bike4Mind, the open-core AI workbench — source-available under BSL 1.1, auto-converting to Apache-2.0 on a two-year clock.

https://bike4mind.com/open https://erikbethke.com

Email: erikbethke at gmail — launch week, bug reports and hard questions welcome! ;)

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Ah thank you so much nisarg-pujara!

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Why? I love AI. Full stop. 54 years old and my first computer was a Vic-20, then a C64, then an Apple IIgs. have been coding since 1980 games professionally since 1995. I am having…

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Show HN: Bike4Mind – open-core AI workbench; any model, agents, RAG, self-host
Hi HN, I am Erik Bethke, game dev that has been making online games for 30+ years (Starfleet Command, GoPets, FarmVille, Mafia Wars). For the last 3 years I have been building Bike…

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