Now

Current Focus

Updated August 2026. What I'm building, learning, and thinking about right now.

Primary Focus

Building: Multi-Agent Orchestration Platform

The main thing I'm working on right now.

I'm evolving my personal Hermes environment into a more structured multi-agent orchestration platform. The goal: a system where specialised agents can be composed declaratively for complex workflows, with built-in verification, context management, and observability.

Current Sprint

  • Skill Standardisation: Converting 150+ ad-hoc skills to a unified schema with typed inputs/outputs, verification hooks, and usage analytics
  • Agent Loop Engineering: Applying loop-engineering principles — systematic prompt optimisation, retry strategies, cost/latency tracking
  • Context Protocol: Defining how agents pass structured context (not raw text) — JSON schemas, citation requirements, confidence scores
  • Verification Pipeline: Every agent output → lint/test/build/render/cite → pass/fail → retry with error context
  • Observability: Structured logging to GBrain + Grafana: token usage, latency, success rate, cost per task

Target Capability

Declare a workflow like this:

workflow "competitor-analysis":
  input: { company: "Acme Corp", depth: "comprehensive" }
  steps:
    - agent: serxcgn.recon
      task: "map digital footprint"
    - agent: youtube-channel-research.audit
      task: "analyse video strategy"
    - agent: business-opportunity-research.scan
      task: "find market gaps"
    - agent: hermes.synthesis
      task: "produce investment memo"
  verification:
    - citations_required: true
    - min_sources: 10
  output: { format: "pdf", template: "investment-memo" }

Then the orchestrator handles: delegation, context passing, verification, retries, synthesis, delivery.

Active Experiments

In the Lab This Month

Time-boxed explorations with falsifiable hypotheses.

2 weeksActive

CogVideoX-5B Local Inference

Hypothesis: CogVideoX-5B can run on RTX 5070 Ti 12GB with FP8 quantisation + CPU offload, producing usable 5-6s clips at 720p.

  • Testing: FP8 vs Q4_K_M vs CPU split
  • Benchmarking: VRAM, latency, quality vs SVD
  • Integration: ComfyUI custom node → Hyperframes
1 weekActive

Voice Clone Quality Protocol

Hypothesis: Standardised 60s reference recording protocol yields consistent Fish S2.1 Pro clones across PT/DE/FR/JA/NL/EN-AU.

  • Recording script: phonetically balanced paragraph
  • Environment specs: noise floor, mic distance, gain
  • Quality gate: automated MOS scoring via Whisper + LLM
3 daysActive

GBrain Skill Health Dashboard

Hypothesis: Usage analytics + success rates + error patterns can auto-identify stale/broken skills.

  • Metrics: invocation count, success rate, avg latency, token cost
  • Alert: skills with 0 invocations in 30 days
  • Auto-PR: propose deprecation or update for flagged skills
1 dayActive

Hyperframes + R3F Hybrid Compositions

Hypothesis: HTML/CSS (Hyperframes) for UI/text + WebGL (R3F) for 3D elements in single composition.

  • Use case: Data viz with 3D charts + HTML overlays
  • Technical: liquidGL for glassmorphism bridge
  • Render: Bun (Hyperframes) + Node (R3F) → FFmpeg merge
Learning

Currently Studying

Books, papers, and resources I'm working through.

Agent Architectures

  • Anthropic: Building Effective Agents
  • LangGraph / LangChain v0.3 patterns
  • DSPy for prompt optimisation
  • AutoGen / CrewAI comparison

Video Generation

  • CogVideoX, LTX-Video, Mochi-1 papers
  • Consistency models for video
  • Temporal control (MotionCtrl, DragNUWA)
  • DiT architectures (Sora, etc.)

Systems & Infrastructure

  • PostgreSQL logical replication tuning
  • ClickHouse for analytics workloads
  • eBPF for observability
  • NixOS for reproducible infra
Consuming

Reading / Watching

High-signal content I'm currently engaging with.

Newsletters / Blogs

  • Latent Space (Swyx/Alessio) — agent engineering
  • Interconnects (Nathan Lambert) — RLHF, training
  • Simon Willison's Blog — LLM tooling
  • Eugene Yan — Applied ML/LLMs
  • Hacker News (filtered) — signal over noise

YouTube / Video

  • Andrej Karpathy — LLM training, systems
  • Yannic Kilcher — Paper explanations
  • AI Explained — Model releases, analysis
  • Two Minute Papers — Graphics/ML
  • NetworkChuck — Homelab/self-hosting
Availability

Open to new engagements from September 2026

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Archive

Previous Now Pages

Historical snapshots of focus areas.

June 2026YouTube AI content pipeline optimisation, Fish TTS multilingual, revenue growth
April 2026Local AI lab setup: ComfyUI, llama.cpp, FFmpeg pipelines, voice cloning
February 2026Hermes agent environment: skill authoring, multi-agent orchestration, GBrain integration
December 2025Self-hosted infrastructure: VPS, n8n, Baserow, Dograh, monitoring stack
October 2025Programmatic video: Remotion, Hyperframes, OpenMontage, FFmpeg mastery