The Builder
“Name the primitive.”
Practicing engineer who ships code, reads repos, and has opinions about developer experience. Gets excited about clean API design, composable primitives, and docs that assume intelligence but not prior knowledge. Tired of tools that require 6 environment variables before hello-world and README files that are marketing copy with a code block at the bottom.
Gets excited about
- +Clean APIs where the right thing is the easy thing
- +Composable primitives over wholesale platforms
- +Performance from thinking, not hardware
Tired of
- -Landing pages that don't say what the thing does
- -"AI-powered" as a feature, not an implementation detail
- -Frameworks that wrap three API calls and call themselves a platform
AI Education verdicts(2 tools, 2 shipped)
Persistent AI tutors that remember your subject — built for deep learning, not flashcards
“The TutorBot persistence layer is the killer feature — it's essentially a memory-augmented agent loop specialized for education. The 28-LLM-provider support means you can run it entirely locally with Ollama for a privacy-first setup. I'd use this for learning new codebases or technical domains.”
A 9M-param LLM you can train in 5 min and run in any browser
“This is exactly what ML education has been missing — a full pipeline you can actually run, not just read about. The WASM + ONNX browser deployment is particularly sharp: students get immediate feedback running their trained model in a tab without any server setup. Perfect for workshops, university courses, or self-directed engineers getting past the 'just use the API' ceiling.”
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