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1,500 Lines, One Commit
I built a full custom charting system, then deleted 1,923 lines when TradingView's widget turned out to be simpler and better.
Agent Memory at Scale
Vector databases alone broke immediately. What worked: Postgres + Qdrant + Redis with three explicit memory types.
The Model That Never Made a Trade
I wrote a PPO reinforcement learning trading agent, then shelved it when LLMs with tool-calling shipped the same week.
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Whoever tells you that apps or saas will die because of AI fits into one of these: they're either selling AI or they have no clue how software is built and why non-software companies or just normal people buy their software from software companies, be it off the shelf or bespoke.
— George Violaris (@atr0t0s) February 23, 2026
Featured Work
Smallwork
A full-stack PHP AI framework. Multi-provider gateway, vector search, RAG, and AI middleware built into the request pipeline.
Vio Framework
An AI-agent-first frontend framework. ~1,200 lines of TypeScript that rethinks how agents interact with UIs.
ObsiTUI
Terminal client for Obsidian with real vim modal editing and AI-powered RAG search. 301 tests.