# Alex Young

> Software engineer, previously a vet. Right now mostly building tools that let coding agents take on longer, messier work.

The full text of every post is at https://alexyoung.info/llms-full.txt.

## Pages

- [About](https://alexyoung.info/about/): Career history (veterinary surgeon, then twelve years as a software engineer) and skills
- [Projects](https://alexyoung.info/projects/): Things I'm building
- [Thoughts](https://alexyoung.info/thoughts/): Occasional writing
- [Contact](https://alexyoung.info/contact/): Send me a message

## Projects

- [Open Conduit](https://alexyoung.info/projects/#open-conduit): Keeps coding agents working on issues and pull requests until they are actually done.
- [Percy Main](https://alexyoung.info/projects/#percy-main): Website, members area and match-day app for my cricket club.
- [FugueState](https://alexyoung.info/projects/#fuguestate): A memory sidecar for Claude Code that tidies up what it has learned overnight.
- [Quantum AI](https://alexyoung.info/projects/#quantum-ai): Research into using quantum measurement as the memory of a sequence model.

## Thoughts

- [Why I hate Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt](https://alexyoung.info/thoughts/why-i-hate-cash-hurt/): Everyone thinks Cash improved on Trent Reznor's original. He took the hurt out of Hurt, and I've been angry about it for twenty years.
- [I installed Home Assistant. But I became my home's assistant.](https://alexyoung.info/thoughts/my-homes-assistant/): I gave some agents access to my house and asked them to fund a humidity sensor. Now the house gives me chores.
- [Embedding memory in substrate](https://alexyoung.info/thoughts/embedding-memory-in-substrate/): The thread connecting process management, AI memory, autonomous agents and a quantum experiment — systems that carry their history in how they operate.
- [The 168 hour working week](https://alexyoung.info/thoughts/168-hour-working-week/): Getting useful work out of agents while I'm asleep, and what that changes about my own time.