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Coding Agents Ate the World: AI Engineer Miami
A talk on how coding agents became the foundation on top of which other agents are built.
Apr 2026
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Agentuity, an AI-native cloud
The seed-round announcement and the thesis behind cloud infrastructure designed for autonomous agents.
Feb 2025
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ICES Journal of Marine Science
A marine-science publication Rick contributed to on estimating global recreational fishing activity.
Oct 2023
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NASA Space Apps Challenge
One of four winners from 170 virtual projects, with an international honorable mention.
2013
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- SN-008 Dogfooding is a friend and a liar Using your own product can reveal where it breaks, but it cannot prove that customers understand it, need it, or will pay for it.
- SN-007 The computer should learn you A truly personal computer should remember how its owner works and reshape itself around them.
- SN-006 The owner is the reasoning layer, for better or worse Most small businesses already have a system of reasoning. It is the owner.
- SN-004 An agentic company is not a company with only agents An agentic company starts with the work, then brings together human judgment, agent capability, and shared context around it.
- SN-005 The company that remembers A small business should not have to become a bureaucracy to retain and reuse what its people learn.
- SN-003 Every job should make the company better An agentic company should not only finish the work. It should become more capable because the work happened.
- SN-002 Freedom is built Technical, business, and national freedom all depend on having the tools and systems to shape your own future.
- SN-001 AI can help small businesses stay independent AI could give independent small-business owners more of the operating leverage traditionally reserved for larger companies.