Stories by dhorthy

A Brief History of Ralph

The space and motion of communicating agents (2008) [pdf]

A Brief History of Ralph

Refactoring – Not on the backlog (2014)

5 Years, 12 Pivots

HumanLayer (YC F24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers

Getting AI to work in complex codebases

OpenAI Harmony on PyPI – moving more clients to rust core?

Unsloth improvements to gguf tool calling for Qwen3

Spec Engineering and the New Code – Sgrove from OpenAI [video]

Claude-code proxy – integrate with any OpenAI-compatible completions provider

Mahalanobis Distance

Convert any OpenAPI v3 spec to an MCP server

Hundreds of MCP servers in Docker, packaged with Nix

Topologically Aware Job Scheduling for Slurm [pdf] (2014)

Startups (Still) Aren't Businesses (Yet?)

12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications

12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications

Towards an AI Native Auth Framework

Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems