Jacob Valdez

Jacob Valdez

Currently working on CommandAGI. Most recently API/Integration Architect at AGI, Inc., shipping APIs, integrations, and agent infrastructure for on-device mobile AI agents. Earlier: Breezy, Deepshard, Motio, and UTA research labs. BS Computer Science from UT Arlington. I love science and engineering and people

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Before AI Can Do Chemistry, It Has to Touch the World

What building a prototype autonomous chemistry lab taught me about embodied AI, measurement construction, and why understanding the task is not the same thing as being able to touch the world.

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  1. 02 / 06Can an Echo Become a Voice Again?rev.
  2. 03 / 06Why I rebuilt the site
  3. 04 / 06Living Inside the Exocortex
  4. 05 / 06Software Engineering After Agents
  5. 06 / 06From Arxiv Reading to ML Systems Taste