I build tooling that gives AI agents more utility and autonomy.

I'm Yev Getman. I'm not interested in training models — I'm interested in what you can build on top of them. The direction of my work is tools and orchestration that give LLMs more reach, more context, and more autonomy to do real work.

Most of what I build starts as something I needed myself: a way to keep a website on-brand while an agent writes it, a way to make an agent write in my voice, a catalog of the tools worth using. I ship them, use them daily, and refine them in the open.

I also collect public reports of AI incidents — cases where AI systems fail in the real world — as an ongoing thought-leadership project. As more decisions get handed to agents, the failures are worth paying attention to.

I'm always glad to compare notes with people building in this space.

How I got here

I was born in Moscow and came to the US in 1989. I grew up in Brooklyn and went to Edward R. Murrow High School.

In 2006 I moved to Texas for Texas A&M. I started in electrical engineering, switched to civil with a plan to go to medical school, and graduated in 2010 with an engineering degree. Somewhere in there I got hooked on software — building things with code was the part I couldn't put down.

So I skipped the traditional early-career path and chased my own projects instead — including an automated trading system for the Forex market. I did web development and agency work until 2017, when iCIMS hired me. The rest is on my résumé.

Teaching has been a thread throughout. I tutored my way through college, taught middle-school math at Kealing Middle School here in Austin around 2012–2013, and these days I provide supplementary STEM and computer-science education to homeschool families.

Outside the terminal

I'm into fitness and calisthenics — handstands, front levers, that kind of thing.

When I'm not building software I'm usually building something that moves. I'm deep into electric vehicles — mostly building e-bikes and electric motorcycles.

I document some of the builds on YouTube.