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Hey, I'm Nikolas. I'm an AI product engineer who's always curious about how we build things – and how AI is making us rethink it all. I believe good products come from understanding the whole picture, from the big idea to the final code.

This is where I share my journey and ideas, hoping to find other folks passionate about building what's next.

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2026

My first public skill - and the part it can't hand you Hand on the Wheel #2

Jul 1

I don't read most of the code my agents write Hand on the Wheel #1

Jun 24

I gave my blog a Markdown twin for agents

Jun 17

I was regenerating Claude's answers just to copy them

Apr 25

LLMs are shortsighted and that's your fault

Apr 15

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Projects

2026

Tacto

A collaborative text/markdown editor and space for humans and agents.

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Status

Building. A collaborative space where humans and agents work on text and markdown together.

Yapper

Native macOS app for offline, privacy-first speech-to-text transcription.

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Stack

Swift SwiftUI Whisper macOS

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2025

Employee Evaluation Tool

Internal company tool for managing employee evaluation processes.

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Journey

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Stack

TanStack Start TypeScript PostgreSQL Google Gemini AI SDK Bun

Status

Successfully sold to my current company. Actively used by 100+ employees for internal evaluation processes.

2024

AI Agents List

Curated collection of the best AI agents from across the internet.

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Open Source

Tokenius

A coding agent built from scratch in the terminal — no frameworks, just TypeScript and LLM calls — to understand how tools like Claude Code actually work under the hood.

TypeScript LLM CLI

Agentic RAG

Production-grade RAG that goes beyond naive retrieval — hybrid search, LLM reranking, query reformulation, and explicit failure handling.

TypeScript Bun Vercel AI SDK PostgreSQL pgvector

Bunbase

Strict TypeScript starter optimized for AI-assisted development — five parallel checks on every commit so agents get instant feedback.

Bun TypeScript oxlint Knip Lefthook

MCP Prompt Lab

Prompt evaluation workbench as an MCP server — run evals, compare providers, and test assertions directly from Claude Code.

TypeScript MCP Evals

Tech Radar Agents

Five AI agents collaborate to evaluate technology adoption decisions — no frameworks, just TypeScript, OpenAI SDK, and ~500 lines of code.

TypeScript OpenAI SDK

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Connect

If you want to get in touch with me about something or just to say hi, reach out on social media or send me an email.