FIG. 00 — MASTHEAD
Chris
Chabot
Building developer ecosystems,
one API at a time.
FIG. 02 — CURRENTLY
BUILDING — MAESTRO @ IGENT AI
READING — MIDDLEMARCH
WALKING — LONDON, REGENT'S CANAL
ON DEVELOPER RELATIONS
Games are won by players who focus on the playing field, not the scoreboard.
A field note on the difference between visible activity and meaningful progress in the life of a developer programme.
The scoreboard is always near. Numbers flicker. Charts climb. Dashboards shine. But the real game is elsewhere — in the small, unseen decisions: a clearer getting started, a helpful example, a nudge at the right time, a trust earned over the long haul.
05
WRITING
INDEX
The Agent Stack Is Becoming Boring in the Best Way
Agent systems are moving from impressive demos into ordinary software: memory, retrieval, voice boundaries, tests, and all the small machinery that makes autonomy usable.
Taste Is Becoming Infrastructure
What AI design systems, testing skills, and model-operation notes reveal about the strange new job of turning judgement into reusable machinery.
The Final Answer Was There
A field note on Cadenza, event sinks, and the unsettling discovery that the agent completed but the UI ate the evidence.
Reading the Whole Spec
A field note on large Markdown instructions, truncation, and why attached context is not the same as absorbed context.
The Wrong Worktree Problem
A field note on workspace identity as a safety property for coding agents.
The Battery Test Is the Product
A field note on Fabric, twelve-thread regression runs, and why broad validation became the definition of done.
FIG. 03 — STUDIES IN MATERIAL. LONDON, MARCH 2026.
Photographed in London, March 2026.
PG. 07
“It is turtles all the way down, as they say, but the exercise proves more illuminating than recursive.
— FROM ‘BUILDING A CODING AGENT FROM SCRATCH’
FIG. 04 — AGENT ORCHESTRATION. AFTER A MID-CENTURY DIAGRAM.
09 SELECTED PROJECTS ✣
Modular Foundations
A reference architecture for scalable developer platforms — composable, observable, and built to scale without compromise.
Field Notes System
A personal system for collecting, connecting, and retrieving ideas from walks, sketches, and long-form thinking.
Agent Orchestration Kit
A lightweight toolkit for building reliable agent loops with tools, memory, and evaluation.
Coastlines & Contours
Maps and measurements from coastal walks — recording shorelines, connections, and small observations.