I’m Mike. I build AI agents and odd, delightful things on the web.
I’m a software engineer in Bigfork, Montana. I make working systems — a restaurant that runs its nights on an AI agent, a publishing platform where kids ship games they build with AI, a river-forecasting site for Montana whitewater — and I write about what building them teaches me. I also take on one consulting engagement at a time, building agentic AI for operating businesses.
Writing
What a year of running an AI agent in a restaurant taught me
The agent proposes, the manager disposes. On confidence decay, approval gates, and why the boring parts of autonomy are the hard parts.
Read articleDesigning a website for AI agents as first-class visitors
ChatGPT was sending kids to ArcadeLab within 24 hours of launch. What llms.txt, machine-readable briefings, and a publish API did that SEO couldn't.
Read articleForgetting is a feature: building brain-shaped memory for LLMs
Power-law decay, sleep consolidation, and why an AI that remembers everything is less useful than one that knows what to forget.
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