Chasing bottlenecks.
I'm Fred. I build systems that take the slow, manual steps out of everyday work.
I made this site to share my projects, ideas, book reviews, and anything else I find interesting.
Projects
All projectsPublished · AI evaluation
Rails-drift, an eval for coding agents
A coding task for AI agents with a hidden grader that tells a real fix from one that only looks right.
Live · Public demo
An AI that listens to your song and gives you notes
Play it a track and it points to three moments worth changing, says what it heard at each one, and tells you what to do about it.
Runs on three prepared tracks for now. Uploading your own comes later.
In use · Client support
A client advisor in Slack
A Slack bot that answers a client's questions from their own project files, and pulls me in when it cannot.
GitHub contributions in the last year
GitHub, updated daily
Notes
My raw thoughts, processed and refined. Take them as a perspective, nothing absolute.
Why I separated API failures from questions my Slack bot couldn't answer
Three different situations reached my queue looking the same. How I pulled them apart, and what the fix still does not prove.
Abundance: a reason to revisit old ideas
My notes on Abundance, and why an idea that was once too expensive or difficult may deserve another look.
Keeping automation useful
What I check before automating a task, including the time spent reviewing results and fixing what breaks.
