Berkant Ay
✓Software Engineer
I'm a software engineer in Berlin, currently Working for myself. I build reinforcement-learning environments, long-horizon agents, and the infrastructure that keeps complex agent work reliable.
I also build open-source tools: Cheez for human-feeling interfaces, GoMorph for AI-video morph detection, and Lucius for pairing with AI on a versioned canvas.
Previously, I worked at Pyne, Firefly, Siemens, DASAL, and Airties. You can reach me on Twitter, LinkedIn, or see my code on GitHub.
Contributions
Writing
Running 1,000 Hermes Agents on Three MachinesThe infrastructure pattern for running thousands of always-on AI agents on a handful of cheap VMs. k3s, Longhorn, Hetzner, and the math that makes it work.CLIs Are for AgentsAI agents need proper interfaces to business infrastructure. Not SDK wrappers. Real CLIs. That's why I built polar-cli.The Developer's Dilemma: When AI Writes the Code, Who Owns the Fix?AI accelerates development but erodes deep system knowledge. When incidents strike, developers scramble to debug code they didn't write. Exploring the need for AI-powered operational resilience.Lessons in Agentic Orchestration and Context ManagementBuilding multi-agent AI systems that work. Practical lessons on the orchestrator-worker pattern, scoped autonomy, context management, and parallel execution for agentic architectures.
Built
CheezHuman-feeling animated pen marks for React.Open sourceGoMorphDetect AI-generated morphing in videos.Open sourcemcproxExpose any API to an LLM.Open sourceLuciusA versioned canvas for pairing with AI.Open sourceslop0Deterministic code-quality analysis for LLM output.Open sourcecodesearchAST-based codebase indexing and search.Open sourceSl4y ThemeA neon Zed theme used by 20,000+ developers.Open sourcepolar-cliManage Polar monetization from the terminal.Open source021labsApplied RL and agent-evaluation research.ProductPrimepage.aiAI-powered website redesign and generation.ProductBax.emailEmail infrastructure for AI-first teams.ProductLouk.ioA context layer for small businesses.ProductNestneoAn AI-powered baby-care assistant.Product
