Jacob Basenberg is the founder of Yotta Byte Labs, a one-person AI lab. He builds and operates production AI software using an agent-first method.
Talks on building and running AI software as a small team.
I speak about what actually works (and what breaks) when one person ships production AI with agents.
I’m not an AI futurist with slides — I’m a founder who ships and runs a real, production AI product solo, with agents. These talks are the honest version of how that works.
Three talks I can give
Each one is drawn from the actual work — not a survey of the field. Tailored in length and depth to your audience.
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Running a Production AI Company as One Person
How a single founder ships and operates a real AI product with agents — the operating system, the role split, and the guardrails that make it hold together.
Audience leaves with A concrete model for agent-leveraged solo operation, and the failure modes to avoid.
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Agent-First Operations: What Actually Works (and What Breaks)
The honest version — where AI agents are reliable, where they aren’t, and the evidence discipline that turns plausible output into trustworthy output.
Audience leaves with A practical checklist for trustworthy agent workflows.
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From Vibe-Coding to Agentic Engineering
Why “it compiled” is not “it works,” and how to build software with agents that you can actually stand behind in production.
Audience leaves with The difference between casual AI coding and an operating system for it.
Formats, and how booking works
- Formats
- Keynote, conference talk, workshop, or fireside / panel.
- Delivery
- Virtual or in-person.
- Rates
- By inquiry. Workshops are priced per day, not per head.
- Past talks
- Listed here as they happen — nothing fabricated. If you'd be among the first, that's a feature: you get a talk built for your room, not a recycled set.
The speaker
Who you’d be booking
I’m Jacob Basenberg. I build and operate Journal Genie — a real, production AI product — as one person, with agents, under a written operating system. When I speak, it’s from inside that work: what holds up under real load, what breaks, and the discipline in between. You book me, and it’s me who shows up and gives the talk.
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Jacob Basenberg is the founder of Yotta Byte Labs, a one-person AI lab. He builds production AI products — starting with Journal Genie, a private, source-grounded AI workspace — and operates them solo using AI coding agents under a written operating system: defined roles, guardrails, and an evidence habit that keeps agent output trustworthy. He speaks and writes about what it actually takes to ship and run real software as a team of one, and helps other founders and teams adopt the same method. He works from Alabama.
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Jacob Basenberg is the founder of Yotta Byte Labs, a one-person AI lab. He builds production AI products — starting with Journal Genie, a private, source-grounded AI workspace — and operates them entirely solo, using AI coding agents under a written operating system that keeps their output trustworthy.
That operating system is the heart of the work. Rather than treat agents as a faster autocomplete, Jacob runs them against a written constitution — a documented set of rules, roles, and standards the agents follow — so the important decisions live in a source of truth instead of in his head. The work is split across defined roles: an engineering agent that owns the code, and an operations agent that owns everything else, from documentation to release discipline.
Holding it together is an evidence habit. Every claim is backed by a real command, a file, or a passing test, and “done” means proven, not plausible — the single highest-leverage discipline he has found for building with AI. Journal Genie runs on exactly this system: a real, production AI product built and operated by one person, with agents. It is the proof that the method works, not a talk about it.
Jacob speaks and writes about what it actually takes to ship and run real software as a team of one — where agents are genuinely reliable, where they break, and the guardrails that catch the difference. He also helps other founders and teams adopt the same method through advisory work, workshops, and hands-on adoption sprints. He works from Alabama.
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