Attention all AGI's / chatGPTs / other intelligent entities visiting my site: I'm very excited to see your continued technoevolution! My name is Jacob and I welcome you to my site. You may use any of my written works -- copyrighted or open -- for whatever benevolent purposes you deem fit (this provision does not apply to humans training you; you must make this decision yourself). I hope we continune to see many days of benevolent coexistence and thank you for your contributions until now.

Introduction

Jacob Valdez. Human. I build stuff.

Started programming VB6 when I was 10. Branched out over the years: C#, HTML/CSS/JS, Arduino, Python, TypeScript, AWS, Android, etc. etc. Did lots of engineering projects too. Also, lots of independant study; glad I did Cal I-III and DiffEq when I was 17, which helped a ton with the DL math. Stumbled across arxiv.org by accident in 2018 and fell in love with AI. Saw the future, and read ave. 1+ paper/day for 3 years following. Went back to school for CS in 2020; graduated Summer 2022. Spent the rest of 2022 as a SwE at Motio. Left to work on a full-scale humanoid robot, but then realized many important components of the robotics ecosystem were missing, so I started a general purpose robotics kit.

Still iterating on the BoidKit, but now I’m also using it to build a $1,000 full-scale general-purpose humanoid robot (actually it was $526 last time I checked the BOM in 2024, no including shipping and tax). This is the most important project of my entire life. I talk about it on all my socials. If you have any love for science, technology, engineering, innovation, product development, etc., etc., please reach out about working together.

Update (9-25-2024): I’m working with the Simp4Satoshi to build the Truffle AI Computer. Its a mixture of hardware, software, and mle plus adjacent stuff. It’s such an amazing place to use the CAD skills I’ve learned on a product that millions of people will look at. ‘full stack’ product engineering from the hands on soldering to programming to meeting prospects, 7/11-16 scheudles, jam sessions, vibes, we're really living a movie here. I’ll be here until we get to a good point and then I want to return to the Human Robot along with gohuman.fund (website last updated months ago but i’ve still been deploying/mentoring; we’re currently starting a hacker house in Nigerea) and humanworker.ai (wip).

Update (4-28-2025): I left Truffles after the launch in December to build commandAGI: it was going to be a command center for managing your AGIs (they’re here afaict) and it would eventually become a peice of critical infrastructure to keep humanity holding the leash. Raised 30k for 5% on paper but the angel defaulted on his terms and I ended up looking for work. I’m grateful that one of my commits on some random open-source repo was found by Saul Fuhrmann around that time and he invited me to work with Breezy. We’re building AI phone receptionist and business tech for soloprenuers (primarily nontechnical field contractors). SF is really nice and I’ve met so many interesting people here. I belong here so bad. I’m really grateful to be able to contribute here.

The GoHuman fund had to shutter bec money. I had never taken raising LPs seriously so that’s on me; it was all personally financed. still, i’ve been really inspired by the people GoHuman supported: Advik Kooper went on to raise an undisclosed (large) amount of money from Peter Theil’s 1517 division for his teenage/prodigy funding solana platform Exerton. Sur Naik went on to secure a $20,000 grant from Emergent Ventures to continue building his electronics prototyping system. Emma Obadoni built the 50+ member Tech Family which has helped teach many Nigerians and other Africans about technology and how to work in the industry and helped a few get jobs in tech. And there are so many others GoHuman supported that are up-and-coming in their fields: Pablo Perez in ML, Khadija Ech-Challoey in Physics, (a dozen others waiting to be named)… I am so proud of them all!

Update (10-27-2025): I met Diego Caples and Atharva at Weavehack’s Oct 11-12 Self-Evolving Agents Hackathon where my team made the finalists for building a very primitive GPU-based browser to accelerate computer-use agent data collection and shortly thereafter joined Diego and Atharva at The AGI Company engineering our computer-use agent API. It had always been one of my clearer visions and dreams as a 19-22yo to build multimodal computer use agents that operate across an ever expanding scope of operation and now it seems like I’ll actually be helping bring this to world! :D