A little about me
Michael Hospedales
I'm a software engineer and entrepreneur in Miami. I build to solve problems.
My work ranges from web interfaces to AI systems running on my own hardware. The front end is my specialty: making something fast, accessible, and pleasant to use. Building the rest of the system helps me understand what it takes to make the whole product work.
I build The Agentic Daily, an autonomous newsroom running on my own hardware, and an AI writing pipeline that drafts posts for my review.
This site is where I share the things I am building, the ideas they lead me to, and the failures that changed how I think. It is also an invitation to start a conversation.
Art, music, and making things
My creative interests extend beyond programming to art and music. Back in the day, I used to make my own 3D models and assets for Quake and Unreal with their level editors.
That is another part of the picture alongside the code and technical writing here. This site gives me room to explore the visual side of building, too — its design is a project of its own.
Learning by running it
Running AI systems myself gives me a way to test what I think I know. The useful lessons often arrive when something breaks, or when a measurement turns out to be less trustworthy than I assumed.
I publish those lessons as field notes and longer write-ups. The goal is to leave enough of the process visible that someone else can use it, question it, or show me what I missed.
Curious about the machines? Here is the current setup.
An evolving point of view
What I am still figuring out
How do I know an evaluation is reliable? How do I notice an autonomous system failing when its checks stay green? What does running new hardware reveal that the documentation has not caught up with?
Those questions come from the projects themselves. I keep my current answers in a dated thesis, with the evidence behind them and what would change my mind.
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A problem worth solving, a project we could build together, a different take on something I wrote, or a conversation about art and music — I would like to hear it.
Last updated September 2026