I come from broadcasting. Eighteen years in, Senior Technical Director, working on some of the largest live shows you can work on. The kind of broadcast where one path going dark at 8:01 PM means a few million people see the dark. My job, every day, is making sure that doesn't happen.

By night and most weekends, I'm doing this. Roughly 200 hours a month for the last year and a half — every hour that isn't the day job or being a dad — building AI systems, breaking them, fixing them, logging what I find.

Both halves of the day pull from the same brain. Live ops makes you think in signal flow, failure modes, redundancy, and pressure. I'm pointing that brain at AI — at directing AI workers, holding their memory, and building the parts of the stack that aren't reliable enough yet.

Klystron is the main thing I'm building. A private system that directs AI workers, holds their memory, and runs my voice loop. Most of it got built the way it gets used — through AirPods, on the commute, talking to a laptop sitting at home. Solo. Most of it built before the category had a name.

A couple of related projects sit beside it in the lab. None of them are public. They'll be public when they're ready, not before.

HSTLRlabs is where I log it all. Happy to talk to anyone working on the same thing — directing AI workers, building shop tools, doing this without a CS degree.