Brad Thome

Senior full-stack product engineer in Dallas–Fort Worth. I build products where AI agents do most of the engineering and deterministic systems keep them honest.

Writing

How one person runs a 1.4M-download product with AI agents The system around the agents: docs they read first, a worktree each, tests they can't rewrite, a second reviewer, a kill switch on every feature and one audited door to production.

Work

VINDecoded
I founded and run this vehicle-research product on Android (1M+ downloads, 4.5 stars), iOS (400K+ downloads, 4.7 stars) and the web. I am its whole engineering team, and AI agents write most of the code.
Verified Sudoku Coach
Can a language model make Sudoku coaching feel adaptive while deterministic software stays the only authority on every Sudoku fact? In progress, in the open.