I build systems around language models: agent runtimes, search over a personal corpus, persistent goal systems, and interfaces that let models operate on structured work.
Previously, I founded and led Terran One, an R&D lab for CosmWasm developer tools. We built a contract language that compiles to Rust, a contract simulator and debugger, a browser implementation of the contract runtime, a local chain and project scaffolds, and a partially generated documentation system. Before that, I led developer relations and ecosystem growth at Terra.
My current goals are:
- Earn $50,000 to $100,000 a month after tax from businesses that operate without my daily involvement.
- Speak six languages conversationally without making language learning my life.
- Have expert guidance on any subject available while I'm out walking.
On this site I:
- document what I build and what it cost
- share the tools and techniques that make it work
- write guides for individuals and organizations building systems of their own
Now
I run my life on ai-organs, a personal system an agent operates for me, and I'm building busibody, a fleet of small businesses that agents run the same way. I'm writing both up in enough detail to be useful.
Writing
all writing →- Idylla convergence layer for agents
- Project Cyborg$27k of compute pointed at my own life
- Cortexsearching everything I've written in one second
- ai-organsbuilding a personal system out of small programs
- Elements of Agentic System Designa map of the code around a model
- OpenClawwhat changes when an agent stays running
Running
- busibodyA fleet of small businesses, each run by an agent. Idyllic Labs.
- mechanisticmindset.comA wiki on computational self-engineering.
- idylliclabs.comWhere we build the primitives these systems are made of.
Contact
If you are building something like this, write to me at william@idylliclabs.com or on X. I read everything.
