Full-stack JavaScript-focused engineer/entrepreneur with lots of experience in building scalable single page apps in different frameworks, web3, multiplayer web games, building transformers and other networks, all sorts of things. Product-oriented, executive and leadership experience, comfortable in both autonomous and collaborative settings, capable Linux sysadmin. I know how to ship, end to end.
I've focused for several years now on agentic and generative work such as simulating networked LLM-augmented embodied agents, interface research, too much to list here but always happy to talk more over email. While the rest of the industry is just starting to latch onto agentic systems, I can offer years of experience, product insight and leadership.
Available for consulting, startups, projects, anything web or agentic.
I made one a couple weeks ago, it also has visuals. You can use a key or use a local LLM running right in the browser. I'll drop it online somewhere, maybe do a Show HN. Would you like me to email you when I do?
In 2004, the games I played that had come out ~22 years prior, give or take two years, were already considered retro: Donkey Kong, Pitfall, Pac-Man, Asteroids, etc. And ~21 years prior was the great video came crash of '83.
Suffice to say, we're dinosaurs. I've made my piece with it and spend a considerable amount of time listening to old British dudes break down 30 year old games.
I've seen for myself how much tunnel vision these models will get when collaborating scientifically/mathematically. When working around unfamiliar domains I have to do extensive grounding on my own. Curious to see how this changes over the next two years as the industry goes after scientific collaboration.
I'd finished a playthrough of RDR2 in 2022 and thought I was done with gaming forever, that nothing would ever be able to touch that level of experience again. I stopped playing for months, completely having lost interest.
Then I discovered Outer Wilds, went in completely blind, played in VR, and had one of the most engaging experiences of my life. It's a true gamer's game.
Lol. If my last company hadn't imploded due to corruption in part of the other executives, we'd be leading this space right now. In the last few years I've created personal animated agents, given them worlds, social networks, wikis, access to crypto accounts, you name it. Multi-agent environments and personal assistants have been kind of my thing, since the GPT-3 API first released. We had the first working agent-on-your computer, fit with computer use capabilities and OCR (less relevant now that we have capable multimodal models)
But there was never enough appetite for it at the time, models weren't quite good enough yet either, and our company experienced a hostile takeover by the board and CEO, kicking me out of my CTO position in order to take over the product and turn it into a shitty character.ai sexbot clone. And now the product is dead, millions of dollars in our treasury gone, and the world keeps on moving.
I love the concept of Moltbot, Moltbook and I lament having done so much in this space with nothing to show for it publicly. I need to talk to investors, maybe the iron is finally hot. I've been considering releasing a bot and framework to the public and charging a meager amount for running infra if people want advanced online features.
They're bring-your-own keys and also have completely offline multimodal capabilities, with only a couple GB memory footprint at the lowest settings, while still having a performant end-to-end STT-inference-TTS loop. Speaker diarization, vectorization, basic multi-speaker and turn-taking support, all hard-coded before the recent advent of turn-taking models. Going to try out NVIDIA's new model in this space next week and see if it improves the experience.
You're able to customize or disable your avatar, since there is a slick, minimal interface when you need it to get out of the way. It's based on a custom plugin framework that makes self-extension very easy and streamlined, with a ton of security tooling, including SES (needs a little more work before it's rolled out as default) and other security features that still no one is thinking about, even now.
You are a global expert in this space. Now is your time! Write a book, make a blog, speak at conferences, open all the sources! Reach out to Moltbook and offer your help! Don't just rest on this.
Thank you, those are all good suggestions. I'm going to think about how I can be more proactive. The last three years since the company was taken over have been spent traveling and attending to personal and family issues, so I haven't had the bandwidth for launching a new company or being very public, but now I'm in a better position to focus on publicizing and capitalizing on my work. It's still awesome to see all of the other projects pop up in this space.
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