Robert Austin founded 8bitbronco after two decades building infrastructure, security systems, and execution engines at companies including Elastic, Lab49, LivingSocial, and Endgame. His background spans heavy infrastructure, vulnerability research, and leading teams — with deep experience in system topology, deterministic constraints, and attack surfaces.
He runs a Mac Pro M5 with 128GB of unified memory and builds everything on Apple Silicon, using MLX for local inference and podman for sandboxed tool execution. Bronco is designed, built, and tested with Broncode (Robert's agentic IDE) entirely on-device.
| Date | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| July 3, 2026 | Publication |