I build tools I wanted and couldn't find, and then find out why nobody built them. Lately that means agent plumbing, developer tooling, and running models on the laptop in front of me.
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The recurring bug in my personality: I can't use an abstraction for long without rebuilding it. The state library, the web framework, the inference path, the agent loop. I'm not against abstractions. I just like knowing what they're abstracting.
A macOS clipboard manager with on-device semantic search. Every copy gets embedded, so "that curl command from Tuesday" is a real query.
Rust Tauri ONNX Homebrew
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Monitoring for cron jobs and AI agents. It tells you the 3 a.m. job died, ideally before your users notice.
monitoring cron agents
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A reactive, proxy-based state store with normalization built in. The entire API is two hooks, because that's all state needs.
TypeScript Proxy monorepo
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A multi-agent dispatcher: ten agents with their own personas and model routing. Naming them was the easy part.
agents LLM routing
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A Chrome extension that drafts replies on X. Suggest-only by design, so a human still owns the take.
Chrome MV3 LLMs
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A web app in Rust with none of the framework magic, built to find out what the magic was actually doing.
Rust HTTP from scratch
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+ an agent harness loop from scratch. no SDK, no framework, just the loop
+ Yank's internals, rewritten by hand down to the embedding pipeline
+ Postgres internals, more than is socially acceptable
+ writing it all up at blog.piyushpradhan.space
TypeScript and Rust most days, ONNX Runtime when a model needs to run locally, and Go when I want things boring in a good way.
| 🏍️ | Riding a Triumph Speed 400 and cutting motovlogs for Untethered |
| 🥊 | Training MMA, a structured way of learning humility |
| ☕ | V60 pour-overs. I will talk grind size if provoked |
| 🏎️ | Assetto Corsa, on a keyboard until the wheel arrives |
| ⌨️ | Mechanical keyboards, football, anime |
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