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
Developer Tools / AI Agents verdicts(1 tools, 1 shipped)
Deterministic browser automations for AI agents — 95% success rate
“Record-replay with LLM fallback is the right architecture for production browser automation. The 95% vs 70% success rate gap is enormous when you're running 1000+ workflows. The Playwright integration means zero migration cost for existing projects — just wrap your sessions.”
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