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an AI agent I control from my phone.

tmux is the best agent orchestrator.

give the agent a clean room and a task file.

disclaimer: this is an AI-generated draft from repo history and notes. I have not fully edited it yet. Treat it as directionally accurate, not as a polished final account.

In late 2023, I built Ibis Birdbrain – a “portable Python ML-powered data bot” under the Ibis project. It was an early attempt at what we’d now call an AI agent: language model tool use in a loop, applied to data work. It didn’t work. But the ideas were directionally accurate.

I had 197 starred repos and 12 star lists cluttering my GitHub. I knew Claude Code could clean it out. 9 minutes later it was done.

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My free & open source software.

which code

Write once, distribute everywhere.

Agents and monorepos.

I built a CLI for the MotherDuck REST API.