Started shipping for the web
The first useful lesson was that production code has a memory. Every shortcut becomes part of the product.
About
Corey B.
AI Tech Lead, software architect, platform builder, and maker of tools that try to stay honest under pressure.
Warm field portrait treatment
I build software systems for people who need the work to survive contact with real users, real schedules, and real maintenance. My background runs from hands-on product engineering to technical leadership, with a long bias toward web platforms, delivery systems, and the quiet infrastructure that lets teams keep moving.
Lately that work has centered on AI-assisted software delivery: not as a magic trick, but as an engineering discipline. The useful part is rarely the model by itself. It is the tests, review loops, data boundaries, deployment path, and product judgment around it.
This site is the personal archive around that practice: projects, field notes, photos, videos, lab tools, and the occasional side quest that turned into something durable.
Timeline
Led teams through larger systems
Architecture, delivery habits, and developer trust became the work as much as the code itself.
Turned agent workflows into a platform
Thalos grew from a personal operating system for AI-assisted delivery into the runtime behind this site and the work around it.
Building in public, carefully
The current focus is practical AI software: scoped, tested, inspectable, and owned by the people who will maintain it.