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
Measure the work that changes outcomes.
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.
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WRITING
INDEX
Lead Research Needs a Scoring Loop
A field note on using agents to find prospects, qualify the evidence, score the fit, and turn the result into market exploration instead of list-making.
BM25 Is Not Quite Semantic
A field note on code-search, ripgrep-shaped speed, and why coding agents need a richer first pass than exact text search.
The Local Cloud Should Be Inspectable
A field note on open-cloud, local service replicas, and why agentic development gets faster when the platform is simple enough to start, debug, trace, and understand.
A Research Agent With a Real Clock
A field note on extending deep research into a long-running agent that can reason, test, revise, and build over days.
Shell Habits Without the Shell
A field note on TypeScript-native command-line tools, coding agents, and why the useful part of bash is often the practiced shape of the work rather than the host binary.
Cloudflare Objects As Product Boundaries
What a Cloudflare-native agent runtime experiment taught me about Durable Objects, Workers, R2, queues, workflows, sockets, and state that survives.
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. PENCIL PROCESS STUDY.
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.