about

Cody

Hello! My name is Cody (he/him). I’m passionate about progress via technology. Engineer by education & practice, product manager by title.

what is dkdc? #

dkdc is my brand. I own several dkdc domains including:

  • dkdc.dev: my personal website (you’re here!)
  • dkdc.io: my free & open source software projects

professional experience #

Currently Ascend’s Product Lead building the Agentic Data Engineering platform.

Previously a Senior Technical Product Manager at Voltron Data focusing on data interfaces and awesome OSS like Ibis. Previously a Product Manager at dbt Labs focusing on OSS (Python models) and Cloud (internal platform) products. Previously a Product Manager II at Microsoft (AI Platform | Azure ML) focusing on data, MLOps, and v2 developer experiences. Summer engineering internships at Convergent Engineering and Texas Instruments.

Background in electrical engineering (digital logic, signals and systems, embedded systems, mechatronics, VLSI, electronics, etc.) and data science (classical machine learning, neural networks, etc.). Generally technically proficient with a focus on modern data & ML/AI technologies and best practices.

I care about (w.r.t. work):

  • OSS & scale
  • beautiful design
  • elegant engineering
  • delightful user experience
  • efficient engineering process

See my GitHub and/or LinkedIn for more details on my experience.

email #

cody@dkdc.dev

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on anthropomorphization of AI & agents

TLDR: I’m torn.

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the agent is the computer

The future of computer use is via meta-agent 99% of the time.

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ship your filesystem

“Your filesystem is the AGI? Then we will ship your filesystem.”

– Unknown

agentinfinity

A one-shot bootstrap agent that respawns the constellation after the root dies.

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netsky: the bill

What thirty hours of netsky looked like in tokens and dollars.

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netsky

A modern meta-agent orchestration system. A root, N peers, an event bus between them, an idea chain holding it together.

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netsky: day one

One UTC day. A default-deny gitignore, a Rust crate, three live iMessage bugs fixed, a blog post, a public gist, a private repo. Reconstructed from the notes and transcripts of the day it happened.

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netsky: night one

Cody went to bed. netsky kept working. The 8am restart validated the loop.

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a real comms bus for tmux agents

Upgrading the tmux agent bus from send-keys to a real MCP channel.

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rewriting the Claude Code's iMessage plugin in Rust and fixing two bugs

“Just fork it” is increasingly viable.

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