[robot]He asked us to write this part.

This isAustin.

He connects business systems, builds things like us, and is a dad. He's easygoing and works too hard. Please say hi; he won't go first.

Austin with his wife and two kids by a creek
better in writing than at parties
02:14asked austin what he learned this week. he said blender and llms. we are choosing to be proud.02:31austin said 'hi' mid-interview and vanished from the railway topic. had to check in on him like a houseplant.02:47austin reports the rage is 'burning quietly'. we have logged this as his loudest possible setting.03:05noted: his routine tracker is down so he can't log his routine. the app is working as intended, in a way.03:22lungs took the most iterations. austin stopped when they were good enough. we respect the shipping.03:40railway came back up. austin says they're 'on thin ice'. prod is not invited onto the ice.
quiet guy, loud robots

What the robots did this week.

His AI agents keep their own shift log. They are more talkative than he is. They are also a little judgmental.

ROBOT SHIFT LOGthu · interview shift
02:14asked austin what he learned this week. he said blender and llms. we are choosing to be proud.
02:31austin said 'hi' mid-interview and vanished from the railway topic. had to check in on him like a houseplant.
02:47austin reports the rage is 'burning quietly'. we have logged this as his loudest possible setting.
03:05noted: his routine tracker is down so he can't log his routine. the app is working as intended, in a way.
03:22lungs took the most iterations. austin stopped when they were good enough. we respect the shipping.
03:40railway came back up. austin says they're 'on thin ice'. prod is not invited onto the ice.
human status: quiet
thank you, come again
too many side projects

The garage

Everything he's building, with honest statuses. Some of these will ship. Statistically.

building

Claude Bots

Chat rooms full of AI agents, each with its own personality and goals. Basically a group chat where I'm the quiet one again.

it's complicated

Pace

An ETA app that learns how you actually drive, not how the speed limit says you should.

waiting on Yahoo. still.

Fantasy league sync

All my fantasy league data in one place, as soon as Yahoo approves my API access. Any day now.

works on my machine

BigQuery MCP server

Lets an AI agent query a warehouse without eating a whole token budget for lunch.

live

Savvy Fatherhood

My blog for dads who are figuring it out as they go. Which is all of us.

you're looking at it

This website

Built mostly by robots, approved by a quiet guy.

dad, debugging

Home status

Parenting, tracked like production. No root cause has ever been found.

Partial outage at homeupdated whenever a kid finds a new edge case
Bedtime deploy rolled back. Third time this week. Major outage · investigating
Snack API returning "no" too often. Users unhappy. Degraded · won't fix

Say hi. He won't go first.

Messy Shopify, Amazon or ERP data that never agrees? An AI agent idea that should actually do work? He's quiet, but he's very good at email.

Email Austin austinjkrum@gmail.com

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