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Max Taylor

I work on AI evals and reliability for agentic systems. Skeptical of tooling hype, mostly because I keep measuring it.

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I benchmarked caveman against two words

Caveman, a popular Claude Code compression plugin, vs. "be brief." 24 prompts, six categories, five arms. The two-word prompt matched it on tokens and quality.

Building a Custom Shell in Rust from scratch

Building a simple REPL/shell in Rust with Tokio and anyhow — parsing input into typed commands and implementing echo, ls, pwd, cd, touch, rm, and cat.

Recreating the Apple Calculator in Rust using Tauri, Yew and Tailwind

Cloning the Apple calculator with Tauri, Yew, and Tailwind. Operator precedence, decimals, and a UI close enough to fool muscle memory.

Create a Full stack Rust desktop App with Tauri, Yew and Tailwind CSS

Building a desktop Pomodoro timer in Rust end-to-end with Tauri, Yew, and Tailwind — system tray, state management, and a controls UI.