What I'm working on right now.

A living snapshot of what I’m building, learning, and thinking about. Last updated August 2026.

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Agentic systems in production

Paylink ledger v2

Rebuilding the payout engine on an event-sourced ledger.

Support agents

Shipping grounded support agents with eval-first development.

This site

Rebuilding martinsmichael.dev on Payload + Next.js.

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Rust

For low-latency payments services.

Evals

Systematic evaluation of agent behavior.

Distributed systems

Consensus, durability, and failure drills.

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Kleppmann — a reread.

The Pragmatic Programmer

The classic, still sharp.

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Reliable agents

Field notes on evaluating AI agents.

Ledger state machines

Designing payment state machines.