Applied AI · built in public
Building tools that think.
I design and ship applied-AI systems: agents, local-first software, and automations that mostly run themselves. I build fast, use my own work every day, and keep what earns its place.
The work
I gravitate toward local-first software, always-on agents, and automations that run themselves. Each one started as something I needed, then got built into something real. A couple now run in production on their own domains.
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Changelog
What I've been building, tuning, and tearing apart lately. Tap any line to open it up.
01Cut Hermes' running costs without touching quality
Hermes runs on a heartbeat, so the model bill adds up fast. I split routing by job: the interactive path I actually talk to runs on a stronger model, while the scheduled background checks drop to a smaller, low-effort one. The always-on parts got noticeably cheaper and the conversation stayed just as sharp.
02Taught my budget advisor to learn my own baseline
The Actual Budget advisor used to nag against numbers I set once and forgot. Now it learns a baseline from my actual history and measures drift against that, so it adapts as habits change. It checks in over Telegram on a daily, weekly, and monthly cadence and calls out creeping subscriptions before they become a line item I resent.
03Made LocalBrain maintain itself
Autopilot now sweeps the whole vault every few minutes, generating frontmatter, tags, backlinks, and freshness scores on its own, whether a note was edited by hand, in Obsidian, or by a coding agent. The whole thing is judged against one promise: the brain maintains itself. No backend, no account, and your Markdown stays yours.
04Gave Voxbit profiles
The same burst of speech can now be shaped into different outputs depending on the profile you pick, so a quick thought and a structured note don't need two different tools. Everything dictated stays searchable in history and can be reused later as context, which quietly turns a dictation app into a memory.
05Turned idea generation into a daily ritual
Every morning a script reads a fresh batch of generated startup ideas, scores them on market signal, build effort, and differentiation, and surfaces the few worth a second look. For anything that clears the bar it offers to spin up a scrappy validation MVP on the spot, so the gap between "interesting" and "testable" stays hours, not weeks.
06Rebuilt this site to talk to humans and agents
The page you're on is hand-built with almost no dependencies (three.js drives the hero; everything else is vanilla), animated with WebGL, and it ships a machine-readable view (the toggle in the nav) so an AI agent gets the same content as clean, structured text. Add structured data, an llms.txt, and an RSS feed, and it's as easy for a crawler to read correctly as it is for a person.
About
I'm Yeshe, an applied-AI builder. I design and ship agentic systems, local-first software, and automations, and I care most about tools that keep working without me babysitting them. Several run in production; the rest quietly run my day. This site is where I keep the receipts.