# antithesis: side quests

> the pursuits around the company — foundationdb itself, the nes r&d program, bugbash, and the open-source satellites.

- 2000–2009 — visual sciences (scherer, ended): scherer and lavezzo's pre-foundationdb company — an early web-analytics/big-data platform where scherer first built a model-based simulation to hunt tail-latency pathologies. sold to omniture, later absorbed into adobe. the ancestral line of the determinator. (sources: [scherer bio: vpython, igf win, visual sciences 2000, fdb principal architect](https://people.equilar.com/bio/person/dave-scherer-antithesis/66894169), [lavezzo profile](https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/foundationdb-how-this-startup-got-funded-by-ron-conway/), [carl sverre (graft) customer account](https://sqlsync.dev/posts/antithesis-driven-testing/))
- 2009– — [foundationdb](https://www.foundationdb.org) (wilson, handed-off): the prior venture — still open source under apple, powering cloudkit and deployed at snowflake. the simulation harness and flow language were its load-bearing idea; antithesis exists because the approach stayed trapped inside one database. (sources: [launch](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/antithesis-launches-out-of-stealth-to-revolutionize-software-reliability-302060173.html), [first 18 months entirely in simulation](https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/engineering.html), [apple acquisition](https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/apple-acquires-durable-database-company-foundationdb/))
- ~2004–2009 — computational biodynamics (wilson, ended): wilson's first company, co-founded right after high school — a finite-element model of the human brainstem and spinal cord for injury diagnostics. irb-approved human studies, dod grants, an spie paper. the proof that wilson's career started in simulation, not testing. (sources: [wilsons own cv: computational biodynamics, fdb document layer, apple/google](https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-wilson-330276112), [wilsons canonical dst talk + his fdb-era bio (biotech start, yale math/philosophy)](https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2014/testing-distributed-systems-w-slash-deterministic-simulation.html))
- ~2000 — vpython (scherer, handed-off): scherer's cmu-era project — python bindings for real-time 3d graphics, used to teach intro physics for decades. the first time he built a simulated world for other people to think in. (sources: [scherer bio: vpython, igf win, visual sciences 2000, fdb principal architect](https://people.equilar.com/bio/person/dave-scherer-antithesis/66894169))
- 2023– — [the nintendo corpus](https://antithesis.com/blog/sdtalk/) (company, continuing): the nes program — super mario bros., zelda (real glitches found, incl. speedrunner exploits), metroid, castlevania. officially r&d for the exploration engine ('this is actually how we figured this stuff out'), unofficially the best demo loop in testing. (sources: [systems distributed 2023 stealth talk](https://antithesis.com/blog/sdtalk/), [sdk demo](https://antithesis.com/blog/zelda/), [this is actually how we figured this stuff out — nes as r&d for the explorer](https://antithesis.com/blog/2025/metroid/), [sometimes_each guidance](https://antithesis.com/blog/castlevania/))
- 2024– — [the open source giveaway](https://antithesis.com/author/will-wilson/) (company, continuing): free deterministic-simulation testing for qualifying open-source projects — the standing answer to the launch-day 'no free tier' complaint, run as a program rather than a product tier. (sources: [complete 14-post essay list w/ dates](https://antithesis.com/author/will-wilson/), [hegel/bombadil open source](https://antithesis.com/docs/introduction/welcome/))
- 2025– — [bugbash](https://antithesis.com/bugbash/) (company, active): the company's own conference — 'not a software testing conference, but a software correctness conference.' ~200 seats sold out in dc in 2025; bugbash europe announced for copenhagen, september 30, 2026. the bugbash podcast is at season two. wilson's strange-loop nostalgia, institutionalized. (sources: [bugbash announced](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/antithesis-announces-its-bugbash-conference-302361415.html), [~200 seats, sold out](https://bugbash2025.antithesis.com/), [current positioning (10x faster time-to-release)](https://antithesis.com/), [bug bash podcast s2e3 evidence of ongoing media arm](https://antithesis.com/bugbash/podcast/escaping-the-spaghetti/))
- 2025–2026 — the jepsen glossary (community, continuing): the co-authored distributed systems reliability glossary with jepsen — announced july 2025, published october — and jepsen 0.3.10's jepsen.antithesis module, pluggable rngs that 'can source entropy from an external system, like antithesis.' the rival-turned-collaborator quest. (sources: [glossary announcement](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kyle-kingsbury_a-distributed-systems-reliability-glossary-activity-7350897921749389312-dxfa), [jepsen+antithesis co-authored reliability glossary (canonical: antithesis](https://jepsen.io/blog/2025-10-20-distsys-glossary), [jepsen](https://jepsen.io/blog/2025-12-02-jepsen-0.3.10))
- 2026– — [hegel](https://hegel.dev) (company, active): david maciver and liam devoe's cross-language property-based-testing family — rust first, go/c++/ocaml/typescript announced — open source and integrating with antithesis. the hypothesis lineage made literal inside the company. (sources: [hegel launch](https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/hegel/), [285 pts / 104 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504094), [hegel/bombadil open source](https://antithesis.com/docs/introduction/welcome/))
- 2026– — [bombadil](https://bombadil.bot) (company, active): property-based testing for web and terminal uis — the second open-source satellite alongside hegel. the proprietary hypervisor stays closed; the testing libraries are the commons. (sources: [hegel/bombadil open source](https://antithesis.com/docs/introduction/welcome/), [aws marketplace private offers](https://antithesis.com/solutions/problems_we_solve/))
- 2026– — [antithesis skills for agents](https://github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-skills) (company, active): the agent-skills repo and snouty cli — skills for research, setup, workload authoring, launch, triage, and debugging. the 2026 bet that an agent can navigate 'the sharp corners in our 8-page setup guide' and collapse onboarding cost. (sources: [antithesis-research/setup/workload skills](https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/agent_skills/), [skills catalog](https://antithesis.com/docs/ai/skills/), [breaking the wal](https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/wal-reset-bug/))
- 2026 — [breaking the wal](https://antithesis.com/blog/breaking_the_wal/) (company, ended): the flagship agent-era anecdote: claude, armed with antithesis skills, reproduces sqlite's wal-reset data race — present since 2010, never organically reproduced by sqlite's team, surfaced via tailscale's 2025 production outages — in ~15 minutes, 'from my phone.' (sources: [breaking the wal](https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/wal-reset-bug/), [tailscales months-long wal-reset production ordeal](https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug), [162 pts / 52 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277799))

AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.

Canonical page: https://hraness.com/antithesis/side-quests


Published by @ben in profile revision 1.
Original document: https://hraness.com/antithesis/side-quests
Original credited author: Hraness
AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.

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