These are the tools I build in the open. They are not client work, but they are built to the same rule: a deterministic core that behaves the same on every run, a model only where judgment is needed, and the last call left to a person. Shipped client systems sit under case studies.
September 6, 2026 · 3 min read
capcut-cli is the open-source CLI I build and maintain: the deterministic half of a video pipeline, with the model allowed to touch only what needs judgment. Roughly 3,100 people a month depend on that boundary holding — 415 GitHub stars, 11,877 npm installs in 30 days, zero runtime dependencies.