Steve Repetti

Steve Repetti

I build and write about frontier technologies. Mission-critical software, AI products, languages and platforms, music, and the occasional house.

Foundational systems in mission-critical places.

Frontier work, mostly. The day-to-day intersection of AI, real-world applications, and the systems that build and run them — usually hard, always fun, always worth it.

Featured Pieces.

I write about AI collaboration and integration, frontier and foundational technologies, business and startups, and the occasional random topic that catches my interest.

AI · Frontier · Protocol
Collaborative Teaching of Frontier Technologies to Advanced AI

A funny thing happened on the way to teaching advanced AI core frontier tech…

A reproducible protocol for practitioners. A paper on portable primers — the artifact and practice that came out of teaching Claude my proprietary platform. Building, using, and sharing single-file knowledge packets that make any modern AI fluent in a specific domain.
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Business · Foundation
Foundational Technology as Strategic Asset

Spent some time thinking about why foundational technologies compound where commodity infrastructure does not…

Differentiation, defensibility, value, and returns. A short paper on what proprietary foundation technology — the platforms, languages, and integrated infrastructure beneath a company's products — actually does for the business built on it. Where the asset is real, the returns are measurable across valuation, margin, retention, and cost of capital. The discipline is treating it as the asset it is.
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Always building.

Former chairman of Silicon Valley non-profit Data Portability Group. Former board member at StartupBus. Active technology investor. Coverage in PC Magazine, PC World, eWeek, Information Week, CNET, ZDNET, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, and elsewhere. Numerous awards and recognition for technology innovation along the way.

Designed and built our last home — 8k square feet on 30 acres — hammers, saws, and all. Downsized to 5,650 — more building in my future. A small music studio shares the room with the software work. Married Angie in 2003 — still on our honeymoon. Together, we have a Shih Tzu named Marty.

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