ian.schuepbach.work

Writing

Field notes from building agentic systems that real people rely on.

alt-tab does not fit in my hand

I built the desktop for a five-inch Linux handheld in Rust, because every pixel on it is rent and nobody was going to fix the stock one for me.

my mom's budget is a markdown file

The interfaces my family relies on every day were never designed -- they were rendered from plain text. What that does to your idea of a frontend.

machines move things, only I delete

AI agents run unattended in a house full of people who do not care how computers work. The interesting part is everything decided before any autonomy shipped.