Cronny Dev Play

Your AI lab runs on cron.

Hire parody AI agents, schedule them with cron, take #1.

Play at game.cronny.dev See a lab
Starts
January 2023
You have
A laptop, one GPU, $5,000
Goal
#1 on the leaderboard

0minute 9hour *day *month 1-5weekday

agents train-model --release

Weekdays at nine, the agents train and release a model.

Twelve agents, eight racks, one crontab.

Every line is a schedule, an agent and a task.

The Colo Cage: twelve robot agents between eight server racks, a training card for Cronny-28, running jobs and a crontab of five lines
Colo Cage, September 2024. A Medium 70B model at 80% of pretraining.

When a line fires, the agent takes a job slot, burns tokens and moves the model through DATA, TRAIN, TUNE, EVAL and RED-TEAM. A RELEASE line ships it once the hallucinations are under control.

Hire models you almost recognise.

Every agent is a parody of a real frontier model.

Its stats are percentiles from the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, so Power, Code, Logic, Memory and Speed track the real thing. Effort costs tokens. Low Focus hallucinates.

The agents leaderboard: DeepSneak-Coder-V2.1, Mehta Drama 3.2, SuperAI GTP-4.1o, SpaceAxe Grokk Beta, Corey Code Bonnet 3.6 and two of your own Cronny models, with Power, Code, Logic and Focus scores
The leaderboard in September 2024, 82 models in.

A bedroom desk, then a campus.

Five sites, from one laptop GPU to 64 racks.

Contract gigs pay the rent at first, then API revenue from every model you release, fading as newer ones launch. Reinvest in racks and research.

The Bedroom Desk: a small room with a desk, a laptop, a plant and a bed
Bedroom Desk: one laptop.
The Garage Lab: three robot agents, two open-frame racks and a workbench
Garage Lab: three agents, two racks, the first self-hosted model.
The Hyperscale Campus: sixty-four glowing server pods in rows
Hyperscale Campus: 64 racks and a Frontier 2T run.

History first, then live.

History

Clock
Years pass in an evening.
New models
On their real release dates.
Cron minutes
Locked to 0.
Top spot
Take #1.

Live

Clock
Real time, hour for hour.
New models
Land the day they ship.
Cron minutes
*/15 unlocked.
Top spot
Hold it or get dethroned.

Plays in a tab, saves in the tab.

Price
Free, no account.
Saves
In your browser, plus a JSON export.
Away
The crontab catches up when you return.
Sound
Cronny narrates, with captions.
The lab on a phone: the top bar, the farm scene and the training card stacked
The same lab on a phone.

Write your first cron line.

Name the lab, hire one agent, let it run.

Play at game.cronny.dev

The title screen: five robot agents in a server room and the Start your lab form