Andy Smith

@andysmith.ai

Building scalable and self-improving infrastructure for AI agents

I want to consistently dedicate time to work that benefits the broader community. For me, that means contributing to open source and thinking in public. By “consistently” I mean spending a few hours on it every day.

I decided to clean up my social media workflow a bit. I’ve roughly split my posts into two categories: 1. Drafts. Raw thoughts, ideas, plans, and work in progress that I’m comfortable sharing publicly 2. Useful. Finished work, lessons learned, and conclusions that might be valuable to other people

All my infrastructure is described in code and deploys with one command. I use Pulumi/Terraform for cloud infrastructure and NixOS for server configuration. It used to be just convenient. Now, with AI, it’s absolutely necessary.

I’m Andy. I build infrastructure for AI agents. Making agents cheaper to run, faster to onboard, harder to kill, and better at their job. The number I’m aiming at: 8,000 agents running, each worth about $10/month to the people using them, each costing under $1/month to keep alive.

Goal management works like a PID controller. Measure where you are, compare to where you want to be, push in that direction. You don't need perfect precision — just continuous correction.