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I love penguins, pixels and creativity in all its forms.
Below: too many of my areas of interest, where I burn my neurons most days.
Pinguinista · games
A noir detective game where you write to think: the evidence goes on a corkboard, and the Bureau only accepts method.
Behind this sheet, the dock as the game draws it: the lamps, the river, Thome and Pale K.
Pinguinista · games
One field, from dawn to midnight. Hand-drawn, one person, a long time. More when there is something to show.
The world, as the game renders it
Pinguinista · tools
Stay senior on what your agents are producing.
Avoid atrophy. Understand what your agents are producing, in a didactic, learning-in-the-loop way: cards, not diffs. The agent says what it wasn't sure about and what you didn't ask for; you predict before you look.
Pinguinista · tools
The stance behind the tool: the enemy it names, and the two mechanics that answer it.
The enemy, and older than the technology. Read a diff the way review tools ask you to and you keep almost none of it; a few months on you are a stranger to your own project — you can prompt it, but you can no longer reason about it.
The flood of agent decisions, intercepted and turned into hyper-compressed experience: years of architectural edge cases in weeks.
A feedback cycle whose goal is to evolve the human, not only to fix the code. The code changes, and you morph alongside it.
Interests · experiments
PyTorch, one self-checking component at a time, on a single RTX 3090. No nn.Transformer, no wrapper I can't explain. Next down the stack: CUDA and Triton kernels.
The modern dense transformer: RMSNorm · RoPE · SwiGLU · GQA · tied weights.
↳ Standing here: the dense stack, four blocks, attention and feed-forward.1 / 3Sparse MoE + MLA in one model, with a router-specialization probe and a seed-averaged ablation.
↳ Standing here: the router picking two experts of eight, attention through a latent.2 / 3Muon, Multi-Token Prediction and a base BPE tokenizer, each self-contained.
↳ Standing here: a second head, one token further ahead, on a denser signal.3 / 3Career
Hardware first: circuits, signals, and the habit of taking a thing apart to see how it works.
Into web3: contracts on one side, the interfaces that talk to them on the other.
My own software factory. Work for the TON blockchain and a string of web3 projects, from the architecture down to the deploy.
B2B travel: flight and hotel packages, sold to agencies rather than to travellers.
Decentralised information and private AI — the first time the two halves met.
Deciding what to build before building it, and being answerable for the choice.
A private, multi-tenant enterprise AI platform: composable agents and retrieval over a customer's own documents, in production. Architecture kept private.
Seven years from soldering irons to agents, and the same method throughout: build it myself first, then trust the tool.
What I have built with
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