One founder, building production AI with agents.

What Yotta Byte Labs is

A one-person AI lab. We build our own products — starting with Journal Genie, a private, source-grounded AI workspace — and help others build with AI using the same method. The product is the proof. The services teach and apply it. The writing documents it.

A written operating system, not vibes

I build with AI agents under an operating system I actually wrote down — roles, guardrails, and an evidence habit. Three parts hold it together:

• Constitution a written document the agents follow, so the rules don't live only in my head.
• Roles an engineering agent that owns the code; an operations agent that owns everything else.
• Evidence every claim backed by a real command, file, or test. “Done” means proven, not plausible.

Journal Genie runs on this. It's the highest-leverage discipline I have — and it's what I teach and set up for other teams.

What I believe about building with AI

• AI output is only as good as the operating system around it.
• Trust comes from provenance and honesty about limits — not from confidence.
• A very small team can ship and operate real software, if the discipline is built in.

What I'm focused on

June 2026 — building Journal Genie toward its public launch, and writing up how the work actually gets done. I update this when it changes.

Read along, or get in touch

The build-log lives at the writing. If you're working on something where the method would help, tell me about it.