All systems operationalDegraded: sleep scheduleLast deploy:

FIG. 1: ONE (1) HUMAN, IN PRODUCTION SINCE 2011

Richard
Brown

SPEC
rev 15.0
ROLE
Solutions architect, principal engineer
UPTIME
15 years, mostly without incident
RUNTIME
Coffee, curiosity, shoes
KNOWN ISSUES
Emits puns under load

Architecture of a person

simplified, heavily · not to scale

INPUTS

  • books.stack
  • coffee.queue
  • [hobby].feed
  • your_email (optional)

CORE

brain.service

  • Single-threaded, tries to run with paralellism > 1
  • Garbage collection sometimes evicts useful data
  • Cache of opinions is frequently stale

OUTPUTS

FIG. 2: High-level architecture. Arrows indicate the direction of caffeine.

Status

last 45 days · self-reported, so treat with suspicion

  • Curiosity100% uptime, no notes
  • Writingoperational, with long gaps between deploys
  • Side projectsdegraded: too many started, few finished
  • Patience in meetingspartial outage, under investigation

Log

  1. PROJECTThis website: A static site with a status page for a human.
  2. NOWUpdated /now: Building out a personal site
  3. NOTEVibe Coding or Agentic Engineering
  4. NOTESome Learnings with GenAI in Development Teams