About

What the site is for...

I build open-source tools with AI assistance and write about the process. Small, composable pieces - Unix philosophy. The blog shows what works and what doesn't. ("Centaur" in chess means a human-AI team. The name is a nod to that.)

This is a serious hobby project, like Audacity was. It runs parallel to my company Catalase Systems .

Audacity

I spent two decades on Audacity, writing code, coordinating releases. When I left Audacity, Audacity had around 2 million downloads a month. I've seen how free software done well can have outsize effect.

Here

I develop code with AI assistance faster and with more features than I could develop it on my own. I share the techniques for working well with AI as I learn them, and release the artifacts that result. I've found that the decomposition into small tools matches AI's strengths. AI is currently better at more tightly focused programs than it is at large complex code bases.

Email: [email protected]

Discord

This site shares how I am using AI to make the tools. There's a discord for community discussion which has more about the use of these tools. Channels for home-schooling, bioinformatics, announcements, general.

Discussions on Discord.

Discord

GitHub

The GitHub SaferCentaurs repo has the code, including build scripts, where they are relevant. Like Manim and SQLite, do not expect pull requests to be merged. This repo is for sharing the code rather than sharing the work.

Code is on GitHub.

GitHub