nowFounding AI Agent Engineer at Eragon AI (opens in a new tab)

I build AI agents and the systems they run on, the way Factorio taught me: design the factory, don't do the work. When the open-source agents I use fall short, I fix them upstream on GitHub (opens in a new tab).

If you're overthinking, write. If you're underthinking, read.

Read the letter

A letter from Manlun

Hey there,

Thanks for climbing all the way up here.

I'm Manlun. I've loved computers for as long as I can remember, and somewhere in the countless hours I spent in Factorio I learned the lesson that still shapes how I work: the real game is never doing the work yourself — it's designing the factory that does it for you.

These days that factory is made of AI agents. I'm a founding engineer building agent products, the runtimes they run on, and the developer tools around them — the unglamorous parts like sessions, sandboxes, routing and evaluation loops that decide whether an agent actually ships. When the open-source agents I rely on fall short, I fix them upstream.

Away from the keyboard I'm usually watching something (opens in a new tab) — anything Larry David first — or playing something (opens in a new tab), from puzzle games like Recursed to a long night of Factorio. And when I'm overthinking something, I write it down on my blog (opens in a new tab).

If any of this resonates, write back — I read every letter.

Manlun

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Work

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    Founding AI Agent Engineer at Eragon AI (opens in a new tab)

    Ship the agent runtime (sessions, skills, memory and knowledge) and put it in front of users through the web client, chat-app integrations and a cross-platform desktop app.

    Build the multi-provider model gateway behind Eragon's agent workspace, routing each step to the right model, failing over between providers and metering every token through to billing and analytics.

    • TypeScript
    • Python
    • AI Agents
    • LLM Gateways
    • AWS

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    Founding AI Engineer at Yansu (opens in a new tab)

    Built Yansu, the proactive desktop AI that turns how you work into knowledge, handoffs and automations.

    • AI Agents
    • MCP
    • Go
    • Wails

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    Senior AI Engineer at CapGo AI (opens in a new tab)

    First engineering hire. Built the programmatic SEO engine that turns a data table into thousands of pages, from the template editor to publishing on custom domains, Cloudflare and Webflow.

    • TypeScript
    • React
    • LLM APIs
    • Cloudflare Workers

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    Software Engineer at Autodesk (opens in a new tab)

    Kept Inventor's builds healthy with a GitHub commit-check pipeline, a React deployment dashboard and Slack alerts for pipeline health.

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    Frontend Developer at MCT

    Shipped CareConnect's payment flows, rebuilt its transaction page on the new design system and sped up its webpack/Babel builds.

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