michael jelly
oh. you’re in.
this is roughly what it’s like in here.
i’m michael. i live in london, and i build things that make computers feel less like computers.
once upon a time i was a hot mess of hydrogen atoms. now i’m a hot mess of all kinds of stuff.
hill i’ll die on: more walls should be windows.
remove drudgery. add superpowers.
- on the nightstand
the culture · the hitchhiker’s guide · malazan · the diamond age · khan omnibus
- thinkering
ar glasses & heads-up displays · robots · mercury os · agent fleets at your fingertips
dark matter is aliens playing hide and seek.
- on screen
pantheon · slow horses · altered carbon · dune · everything everywhere all at once
i wanna live in the retro future, with hippy aliens and funny robots.
- playing
factorio · football · skiing · generals.io
still to do: watch turtles hatch. see the northern lights.
every single one of us a spaceman, flying round the sun on a big blue green ship.
(there’s a terminal in here somewhere. .)
anyway. that’s roughly what it’s like in here.
want to know more?
workopen the briefcase
- now · ai engineer, product
build
agents doing the paperwork of the physical world: permits for the data centres and power that ai runs on.
- 2024–26 · member of technical staff
highlight ai
memory and context for an assistant that can see your screen. audio capture, computer use.
- 2025 · contract prototyping
google deepmind
a tool that reads the newsletters and writes the ai policy team their digest.
- 2023–24 · founder
omnipilot
ai in every text field on the mac. option-space, and it was just there, already looking at what you were looking at. one of the first to do it through accessibility apis. built alone; it paid its own way.
- 2023 · maker
penrose analyst
a chatgpt plugin for the news and all of arxiv, minus the paywalls.
- 2022–24 · co-founder & ceo
magicflow
ten thousand people found out when they were really in flow, and what kept pulling them out of it.
- 2020–21 · co-founder
ethi
showed people what facebook, google and twitter actually knew about them. 1,200 upvotes on product hunt.
- 2019–20 · business analyst
deloitte digital
software for government, and a crash course in how big organisations actually work.
- 2016–19 · bsc ppe, first class honours
ucl
philosophy, politics and economics. a first, and a laidlaw scholarship on whether knowing more about politics makes people feel more able to change it.
- now · ai engineer, product
- writingthe automation dividend
playkhan or singularity
- khan, a horse-archery game
- singularity, a multiplayer strategy game
- say himichael@jellymail.net