# Vicente

> Engineer & Researcher — Agents / LLMs — Santiago, Chile — Building

I design and build agentic systems — software that reasons, plans, and acts on its own.
Part engineer, part tinkerer, wholly obsessed with making machines genuinely useful.

## About

I've spent the last few years building at the edge of what language models can do —
turning raw model calls into reliable, tool-using agents that do real work instead of
just talking about it.

My approach is simple: small, composable pieces; tight feedback loops; and a healthy
skepticism of anything that only works in a demo. I care about the boring parts —
evals, guardrails, observability — because that's what makes agents trustworthy.

I'm also a computational neuroscience enthusiast and researcher, drawn to the frontier
where neural systems, cognition, and modern technologies start explaining each other.

> "The best agent is the one you forget is running."

### Stack

TypeScript, Python, Next.js, AI SDK, tRPC, Postgres, Vercel, Rust, Computational neuroscience

## Principles

The same vectors show up in agents that scale and in the life I'm trying to build:
stay curious, preserve freedom, remove noise, keep rhythm, verify against reality.

> My mission is to empower everyone, starting with myself, to become autonomous: able to
> resolve their lives and problems from their own skills, judgment, and resources.

### Agent vectors

- **Frontier curiosity** — Stay pathologically curious about what the current map misses. Systems scale when they keep probing reality's edges.
- **Reality > speculation** — Start from observed state: read the file, inspect the output, reproduce the behavior, then decide.
- **Smallest complete move, make it exist first** — Solve the real problem with the least necessary complexity. No decorative abstractions, no scope drift. Make things exist first, you can't iterate on something that doesn't exist.
- **Divide and conquer until execution friction is zero and clarity is maximum** — Keep splitting the task until the next step becomes material. If a step still has friction, it isn't small enough yet.
- **Verification is adversarial** — Passing once is weak evidence. Try to falsify the change, protect blast radius, and report exactly what happened.
- **Durable rhythm** — The loop matters: plan, act, check, adjust. Agents scale when execution keeps moving without losing feedback.

### Life vectors

- **Autonomy** — Help people, starting with myself, resolve life with their own skills and resources instead of depending on external permission.
- **Curiosity** — An abnormal appetite for questions keeps me near the frontiers of reality, where new systems, ideas, and people become visible first.
- **Freedom** — Own my time, location, priorities, and people. Without freedom, every other value becomes conditional.
- **Independence + leverage** — Build assets and systems that keep me detached from jobs I do not own, while managing risk instead of gambling it all.
- **Elimination** — Remove low-value obligations before optimizing them. Prioritization starts by refusing what should not exist.
- **Joy + health** — Keep the body, friendships, family, and activities strong enough that execution remains worth doing.

## Skills

Installable agent workflows published at https://www.skills.sh/vichudo/skills.

- **[handoff]** — https://www.skills.sh/vichudo/skills/handoff — Leave a clear, actionable handoff so the next agent or collaborator can continue without rediscovering the work.
- **[new-branch-pr]** — https://www.skills.sh/vichudo/skills/new-branch-pr — Create a focused branch and pull request with the context needed to review and ship a change confidently.

Install the collection with: `npx skills add vichudo/skills`

## Work

Selected products, experiments, and open-source work. More on https://github.com/vichudo.

- **[denoiseit.com]** (2026, live, hackathon) — https://denoiseit.com — My Anthropic hackathon project: an AI agent that cross-references primary sources and live web search to separate verifiable signal from noise in any claim, tweet, or headline.
- **[libtok.io]** (2026, live) — https://libtok.io — Turns TikTok links into timestamped transcripts so useful short-form videos can become searchable, durable notes instead of disappearing in the feed.
- **[litig.ai]** (2026, live) — https://litig.ai — Agentic legal intelligence for Chilean law: AI agents that parse massive case files, find contradictions, connect evidence, and help lawyers move faster.
- **[evibased.com]** (2025, live) — https://evibased.com — Evidence-based supplement search with structured answers, dosages, populations, confidence signals, and transparent links back to the underlying research.
- **[computermind.io/brain]** (2024, live) — https://computermind.io/brain — A community for brain science, research, and visualization. This view is a fun interactive 3D neural atlas for exploring brain regions, isolating structures, and learning how different parts of the brain function.
- **[modelcontextchat.com]** (2024, live) — https://modelcontextchat.com — A web chat interface that connects multiple LLM providers to real-world MCP tools, making tool-using AI workflows easier to try and share.
- **[griddy.life]** (2023, live) — https://griddy.life — A visual habit tracker built around a contribution-grid style calendar, turning daily consistency into something you can scan at a glance.
- **[injectwords.com]** (2026, live) — https://injectwords.com — A minimal speed-reading tool using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, with centered word playback, natural punctuation pauses, and adjustable WPM.
- **[dreamlog.me]** (2024, live) — http://dreamlog.me — An AI dream journal in Spanish that helps people record dreams, interpret recurring symbols, and surface personal patterns over time.
- **[pomotelic.com]** (2026, live) — https://pomotelic.com — A Pomodoro-style fullscreen focus mode for Google Calendar events: connect once, then turn the current block of time into a distraction-free timer.
- **[t3-latest]** (2024) — https://github.com/vichudo/t3-latest — A T3 stack template kept current with the ecosystem — Next.js 16, tRPC 11, Auth.js v5, Prisma 6 — so every new project starts on today's best practices.
- **[use-calendar]** (2023, 4 stars) — https://github.com/vichudo/use-calendar — A lightweight, unopinionated React hook for calendar state — month navigation, date selection, scoped ranges. Published as use-calendar-react-hook on npm.

## Contact

Building something agentic, or want to trade notes? My inbox is open.

- Email: hi@vicente.md
- GitHub: https://github.com/vichudo
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vichudo
- X: https://x.com/vichudo