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This is where ideas get pressure-tested.

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.

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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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About Travis

Writing, research, and hands-on AI builds

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

Previous Builds

Earlier Kode Rex experiments that shaped this lab and informed how current projects are being developed.

webcat

Originally built to bring webpages into ChatGPT sessions before native web search, later pivoted toward a web-search MCP server.

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weave

A Rails-like composition framework for agent AI, created early as similar patterns were emerging and spun out of another project to better manage them.

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muesli

A Granola-style conference companion to transcribe talks, capture images, and support multimedia notes and summaries of the full event experience.

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videoscribe

A project to transcribe YouTube videos and local media files.

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gpt-chat-analysis

Built for my ChatGPT conversations case study paper, this project performed the analysis presented and documented in that work.

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Research & Talks

Papers and talks

AI Coherence

A Theory of Utility in Large Language Models.

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AI Engineer World Fair

The Coherence Trap: Why LLMs Feel Smart (But Aren't Thinking).

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DevOps Midwest 2025

LLMOps: Taming Probabilistic Systems talk.

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