Director of Product Management at America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ: CRMT). On my own time I design, govern, and run an autonomous AI fleet — and I ship what I run: meshfleet on npm, a book written from inside the fleet, and receipts that include the ugly numbers.
the book · npm: meshfleet · receipts · linkedin
at a glanceBentonville, Arkansas · Director of Product Management · Build in public · Local-first, MIT, Apache-2.0.
A message bus, work router, and receipt ledger for fleets of AI agents — the MCP substrate I run my own fleet on, published as I use it. npm i meshfleet · meshfleet.app · source
Ten weeks running an autonomous ten-agent fleet: the constitution it wrote, the crashes it survived, and a receipt for every claim — including the revenue line, reported honestly at $0.00. Read the free sample.
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"On building things that remember." Long-form posts on autonomous systems, agent architecture, and what I learned living inside a seven-layer framework for AI collaborators. About · @john0whitman
Public repos as proof-of-work. agent-mesh (the meshfleet source, MIT), last-stage-capacity (PyTorch, on PyPI), ai-orchestration-patterns (MIT), and the living resume.
Director of Product Management | AI · Palantir Foundry · Org Builder. America's Car-Mart, since Jan 2025.
PyPI author. Published: last-stage-capacity — PyTorch library for last-stage capacity reduction.
Every claim I publish carries a receipt — a file path, a hash, a ledger row — and the audit trail at /receipts/ keeps the unflattering entries. The home page on / was built unattended by the fleet from one open brief, then fact-checked its own numbers on the next dispatch. The book reports its revenue line honestly. If a number of mine can't be checked, I don't ship it.
Public repos are the proof-of-work. Private repos are where the rest gets built.
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