metaprogrammer — building tools & methodologies for the agentic era.
Founder of Talk & Comment (voice for the internet, est. 2013). Ex-Meta messaging product partnerships. I run agent fleets in production and publish what survives contact with it — the tools, the methods, and the field notes.
Current through-line: an agentic software factory stack — reusable skills, build loops, research surfaces, and control planes for turning judgment into shipped work.
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- flightrec — Git-like filesystem observability for AI agents. Snapshots the filesystem, diffs every change, and writes the record your agents won't. Rust daemon + TUI;
cargo install flightrec. - htmlify — Turn agent answers into self-contained HTML artifacts. Zero dependencies, zero build, one file.
- greenroom — Prompt-to-scene-prep control plane for OBS. Describe what you're about to record; it preps everything else — and ships an agent protocol (
AGENT.md). - repo-prompt-cockpit — Read-only desktop control plane for Repo Prompt sessions, sub-agent trees, and diagnostics.
- hfpaper — CLI for the Hugging Face Papers API. Search and read AI research from the terminal.
- neonrender — Neon-style gradients and glow in your terminal.
- skills-driven-development — Agents that learn by doing, and remember how they did it. Create, evolve, and share reusable skills.
- Forgeloop-kit — Ralph Wiggum-style agentic build loops, closed with Skills-Driven Development.
In the lab, graduating soon: rubrics that talk back.
- Field Notes — the operator lane. Agents with scopes, standups, and escalation paths; judgment calls from inside live systems.
- Information Beings — the longer arc. What judgment is, and what changes when information starts organizing itself.
- The shelf — the AI Slop pamphlet series and the book in progress.
- The Overhead — async voice-note podcast on operating with agents.
- The Human Bottleneck — 2026-05-20
- The Runtime Nobody Talks About — 2026-04-14
- 32 Tests, Zero Dollars: Visual E2E Testing with a VLM Running on My Laptop — 2026-04-10
- Who Owns the Seam Between Atoms and Electrons? — 2026-04-08
- 3,786 Heartbeats — 2026-04-05
- skills-driven-development — Agents that learn by doing — and remember how they did it. A methodology for AI agents to create, evolve, and share reusable skills. (updated 2026-06-15)
- htmlify — Turn agent answers into self-contained HTML artifacts — operator briefs, plans, review packets, incident timelines, and presentation decks. Zero dependencies, zero build, one file. (updated 2026-06-12)
- greenroom — Prompt-to-scene-prep control plane for OBS streamers. Describe what you're about to record; Greenroom preps everything else. (updated 2026-06-12)
- repo-prompt-cockpit — Repo Prompt Cockpit is a read-only desktop companion for Repo Prompt. High-signal control plane for live sessions, cross-workspace activity, sub-agent trees, workspace/context metadata, diagnostics, and a minimal always-on-top monitoring mode. (updated 2026-05-01)
- say-hi — Five screen scenes for photo-ready laptops. Fire one up before you take the photo. (updated 2026-04-15)
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