I’m Jacob Bennett, a Staff Engineer at Medium working on AI enablement across our platform. I write about software engineering, product strategy, and decision-making—with a particular focus on how to build better systems and help teams make sense of complexity. Most of what’s here comes from lessons learned building at scale, and I try to share the thinking behind the work along with the conclusions.
last30days skill
An AI agent skill that searches across multiple platforms and ranks results by real-world engagement signals.
goose: open-source agent
goose was built by Block and is now managed under the Linux foundation. It powers Stripe's "minions".
llm-wiki
A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs published by Andrej Karpathy.
The model vs the harness
"What model does it use?" is the wrong question. Most of the differences you feel between AI tools come from the harness, not the model.