Featured Experiment
HydraFlow
It handles it all: log an issue and watch it build. AI handles all of the delivery from idea to shipped software. Intent in. Software out.
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Kode Rex
Koderex.ai
I am Travis Frisinger. Kode Rex is my thinking space and build lab for AI-first experiments. I use it to test, ship, break, and rebuild ideas in public. One of the core experiments is HydraFlow, an experiment in fully autonomous development.
Featured Experiment
It handles it all: log an issue and watch it build. AI handles all of the delivery from idea to shipped software. Intent in. Software out.
Visit HydraFlowAbout Travis
I am currently Head of Agentic AI at 8th Light, and I share ongoing thinking and experiments at AI Buddy, from practical AI engineering to how teams work differently in an AI-native world.
Past Experiments
Earlier Kode Rex experiments that shaped this lab and informed how current projects are being developed.
Originally built to bring webpages into ChatGPT sessions before native web search, later pivoted toward a web-search MCP server.
View repoA Rails-like composition framework for agent AI, created early as similar patterns were emerging and spun out of another project to better manage them.
View repoA Granola-style conference companion to transcribe talks, capture images, and support multimedia notes and summaries of the full event experience.
View repoA project to transcribe YouTube videos and local media files.
View repoBuilt for my ChatGPT conversations case study paper, this project performed the analysis presented and documented in that work.
View repoResearch & Talks
A Theory of Utility in Large Language Models.
Read paperThe Coherence Trap: Why LLMs Feel Smart (But Aren't Thinking).
Watch talkThe Value of LLMs talk.
View slidesLLMOps: Taming Probabilistic Systems talk.
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