Hey, I'm Brent

I'm Brent Burdick, a self-taught software engineer and curious builder living in San Francisco, California.

Whopshop - a Lovable style natural language app builder for Whop.com (with demo video)
Proposal where I attempt to quickly and concisely imagine how efficient learning systems of the future will work.
Restricting a language model to the top 1000 words in English - A technique to restrict language models to any specific set of allowed words. This has exciting applications for language learning because you can generate content exactly at someone's level.
Brick Bot - My attempt to build the fastest way to learn a language.
Lights - building really bright lights.
Writing - a window into my personal journal.
Math - Working through Combinatorial Problems and Exercises by László Lovász
NextJS Pages to App script - If we can decrease the average website load time by 10ms, we will have cumulatively saved humanity hundreds of years per day.
Airchat Clones - I scraped and voice cloned ~380 people from the social media app Airchat.
Rift by Morph - an open-source and (optionally) local LSP + VSCode extension for AI pair programming (with demo video) [GitHub Archive]
Project Tenet - an initiative to embed and visualize all of human belief.
Atlas - an in-browser IDE
Prompt Smoothie - a way to optimize prompts for LLM-powered applications.
Smoothie CLI - a tool to code faster with ChatGPT.