What this is
About
fullauto.online covers the machinery of autonomous software: the models underneath, the harnesses that run them, the protocols that connect them, and the tools you need to know whether any of it works.
It's written for people who are building this stuff, not evaluating whether to care about it. That means specifics over trend pieces, and a bias toward the parts that are unglamorous enough that nobody else writes them down.
The half-life meter
Every post carries a meter showing how far through its useful life it is. The calculation is deliberately simple: age against a half-life assigned by subject.
| Class | Half-life | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | 45 days | The fastest-rotting fact in the industry |
| Models | 60 days | Names, prices and capabilities move constantly |
| Harnesses | 90 days | Features churn; the shape holds longer |
| Frameworks | 120 days | APIs break, but the trade-offs persist |
| Tools | 120 days | Practice changes slower than product |
| Protocols | 180 days | Specs are designed to survive |
Past one half-life a post is marked verify: the argument probably still stands, but check any name, number or default against its source before you act on it. Past two, it's archival — read it as a record of what was true, not as instruction.
No post is silently deleted or backdated. If something turns out to be wrong, it gets a correction in place, and the correction says what was wrong.
The bargain
This field produces a great deal of confident writing that quietly stops being true. The meter is the site betting against its own archive, in public. If that makes an old post look untrustworthy, the meter is working.
Affiliate links
Some posts contain referral links, and this site earns credit when someone signs up through one. Those posts carry a disclosure at the top, before the argument starts, and are flagged as affiliate link in the post listings so you know before you click rather than after.
The rules this site holds itself to: a referral link never changes what a post says, no post exists purely to carry one, and the criticisms stay in. If a product has a catch, the catch is in the piece — a review that only lists upsides is an advertisement, and it will be labelled one or it will not be published.
The board
The front page is maintained by hand and edited when something actually changes. It is not a feed, not a benchmark, and not exhaustive — it's the short list of what's worth knowing at each layer of the stack. Treat it as a starting point and confirm against a vendor's own documentation before you quote it in a decision.
Corrections and contributions
Corrections are welcome and get credited. If a post says something that's no longer true, that's a bug report, and it's the most useful thing you can send.
Colophon
Static HTML, no build step, no tracking, no cookies, no newsletter modal. Set in Archivo, Newsreader and IBM Plex Mono. The half-life meter is the only JavaScript on the site, and every page reads fine without it.