Introduce yourself

Hello. My name is Richard Reukema. I'm a developer of 40 years, and I'm exploring and utilizing AI to its fullest extent possible. Wondering how I can best use AI in the development of applications.

I'm developing a new service called Back the App, and that software will allow anyone to express their requirements in terms of an application. It then gets put into a queue for my attention to work on.

I am going to be very vocal in terms of my use of AI, and I'm publicizing that use of AI on my channel on YouTube and in Shorts and TikTok under the handle @MyAISpeakeasy.

Links (optional)

https://backtheapp.software - to record your application idea and get my attention to build it - a work in progress
https://myaispeakeasy.com - a early landing page on what I'm doing and why - still a work in progress
https://CustomerGravity.Cloud - a service to express the good and bad of how corporations are treating customers as second class citizen
https://SignalWeaver.cloud - a tool I built to help integrate AI using what I call XDomain events
https://AlignIQ.ca - my AI tool for HR to evaluate resumes against a job description and rank them (NOT select)
https://AISoftwareFactory.cloud - tools that I'm building to assist in my develop of application using a factory assembly line workflow
https://AIPolish.cloud - a skill I'm creating that'll help take Markdown into Word documents with style. It's a frustration point for me.
https://TheBusinessAdvantage.blog - where I blog about my thoughts on the use of technology to address business problems
https://TheEmpoweredCustomer.com - which is the online experience of my book to what it means to take a customer first approach
https://SnapChing.com - a service that takes the visioning of my TheEmpoweredCustomer.com and makes it a service to create a cooperative data repository of customer profiles, own by those that contribute
https://KallKapture.com - a service to handle unknown calls, and do so with privacy and a human in the loop at all times

My social channels: at Tiktok and youtube: @MyAISpeakeasy

R

Where are you in your GitHub journey?

Looking for the latest developer trends

And where are you going next on GitHub?

GitHub is transitioning from its major initiative of just managing and maintaining code of an application in a repository to start managing markdown files, which are seen to be becoming the primary first-class citizen of agentic AI clients in executing with both the mentality of an agent and the skills. I see the ability, which is a cross-section where an agent has a specific purpose and a skill is something that's very specialized. And to be able to store that somewhere that can be retrieved and used in any application or in any repo is where I'm hoping GitHub will pay attention to and something that I can help with. My ability to use the environment today is something I'm calling Agentic Intent Application Development (AIAD) (trademarked)

What technical skills or projects are you working on?

I operate under the premise that AI can fold time, and in doing so, I strive to maximize efficiency in application development. My objective is to condense ten days' worth of work into just one hour—a challenging target. There was once a goal set by Bill Gates to have a computer on every desk, which inspires my thinking. My aim is to take application ideas and make them a reality by folding time as much as possible.

Got a question for us? (optional)

My question is: GitHub stores documents and agentic capabilities store mostly everything in Markdown, but when I want a template, it's very difficult to say to GitHub agentic. I'm in a Blazor server application development. I want my skills and agents available, and it can't do that. I'm building a service that actually does that. It's called the AI workspace configuration service, and it uses GitHub to actually record templates in various repos and then agentic, through an MCP server, brings those down into my workspace when I'm requiring them. The only problem I have is resources. It's such a good idea, but I don't have enough cycles or monetary means to sustain myself to do so. Is it something that you guys would consider sponsoring?