What I’m doing now

(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.)

Agents as Bridges to Legacy and Classic Systems

I am exploring the interfaces between the familiar computing world and the emerging world of AI agents. My current research question: what happens when you give agents access to legacy and classic systems — a Commodore 64, a VAX machine, a wiki, a family archive? Can an agent serve as a natural, conversational bridge to these older systems — making them accessible and useful again through plain English text or voice? I am investigating whether the agent paradigm is a genuinely good interface for interacting with systems that were never designed for it, and what new possibilities that opens up.

Updated February 14th, 2026

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Open Service Mesh

I started working Open Service Mesh in December of 2019 with a tiny team of great engineers. In August 2020 the project was released on GitHub as an open sourced project, and in September 2020 it was accepted as a CNCF sandbox. This journey just began... See my Open Source Summit Japan talk for more info

December 1st, 2020