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John D. Pope
developerFormer software engineer turned (checks notes) AI Graph Engineer
Public projects
NES
Zeroth-order (population-based ES) pretraining of a tiny GPT — no backprop through the model
Python
hardonia-store
Local-first AI product catalog + storefront. Zero cloud dependency. ComfyUI workflow packs, prompt templates, and AI operations tooling.
Likely stack
OpenAI
