Building the first version of the next thing.
- Note My personal app store
I had Bot build me a nutrition tracker for my iPhone, tuned just to me, with goals I set and a made-up veggie score. No ads, no upgrade to pro, my data. It beat the A-list consumer apps, and I've deleted them.
- Note Marketing to agents
People aren't choosing their own software tools much anymore; coding agents are. If you ship an MCP server or a library, market to agents.
- Project Bot
My own always-on agent, after OpenAI's Dots: memory as an LLM wiki in git, running on a box I control.
- Project Open World Hack
NetHack 5.0 with the dungeon replaced by one huge outdoor world. The further you walk from the center, the deeper you are, and you win by carrying the Amulet back to the high altar you started on. It also adds a new role and race, plus my favorite bits from many NetHack variants.
- Note The Risk and Reward of Agentic Coding
A lot of developers worry that agentic coding produces slop and messy codebases. For me it comes down to risk and reward. On a personal prototype the risk is close to nothing. At a startup I'd take more risk than a large company would, with eyes open.
- Note Why this site
About a year ago I stopped writing code, and now I can build a prototype in the time it would have taken me to write a speculative essay about it. This note says what the site is for and what goes on it.
- Project Sophon
An operating system where you state intent and it builds the surface to serve it. Phase one is a dockerized userland with no file system you see, no package manager you touch, and no application store.
- Project Samantha
A daemon you install into any running program with one import. You chat with the program while it runs, and it can flag and change things on its own. Python is the first implementation. It's the opposite of what I build at Jaxon, and nothing I'd put in a production system with any stakes.
Greg Harman is cofounder and CTO of Jaxon. He builds the first version of the next thing. This site holds essays, living pages for his personal projects, and short notes.
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