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Emerson Braun

Software engineer · builder · author · speaker

15+ years building software. Now focused on AI systems that survive production.

I'm Emerson Braun. I've interviewed more than 500 candidates, created AgentsKit, written a book, and built a career around making complex technical work clear and useful.

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16+
years shipping software
180+
engineers led
500+
technical interviews

Work

Software engineering, AI systems, and tools built for production.

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01The future of AI isn't bigger models, it's finer control over the ones we already have.02The evaluation gap is where AI agents go to die03The best AI systems don't predict, they intervene.

Speaking

The production lessons behind the tools.

I speak about AI, agents, software engineering, technical judgment, and the trade-offs behind systems that have to work outside the demo.

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About Emerson

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Software architect, open-source builder, and author.

I build the tools I needed when the demo stopped being enough.

I spent 15 years shipping software across startups and enterprises, leading 180 engineers and running more than 500 technical interviews.

Now I focus on the point where AI products become engineering systems: modular runtimes, observable behavior, deliberate evaluation, and governance that teams can actually operate.

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