Where this started
I started building because I kept wanting software that did not exist yet. I wanted to see my investments the way I think about them, so I wrote Vantage. I wanted an assistant that handled the boring parts of my day without doing anything behind my back, so I wrote one that lives in Telegram. Atlas came out of wanting those agents to run on my own machine instead of someone else's cloud.
People used to tell kids my age to come back when they were older. That advice made more sense when knowledge sat behind a degree or a job. It isn't there anymore. I would rather show the work and let it argue for me.