James Brady · Lehi, Utah
reality is I can't code and I never will be able to.
typed to one of his agents, 2 Aug 2026
So his agents write the code. Under his name, in public, 678 changes have merged. He runs two companies with them.
What you’re looking at
When lightning hits sand, the strike is gone in a millisecond. What it leaves behind is glass, fused along the path it took. That glass is called a fulgurite.
Most of what AI agents do vanishes the same way. On one day in August, his fleet ran 1,705 jobs and merged one. What merges stays. So the object beside this text is a fulgurite grown from his public record, and nobody drew it.
Depth · 2024 to spring 2025
Small experiments.
The record starts small: games, flashcards, a calculator, a video agent. Nothing here was meant to last. It was practice.
Depth · May to September 2025
The spray.
Then a burst: 92 public repositories in five months. Among them, the connectors that let an AI assistant use other apps, still his most-starred code. On 5 June, 9 “of one” names in a single day: CEO of One, Director of One, VC of One and the rest.
On 13 September, 22landing pages in one day, all left within a fortnight. Ideas, not products. They’re the short bare twigs near the top.
Depth · October 2025 to March 2026
Finding the threads.
Fewer lines, longer ones. A brainwave toolkit in November. New Reward’s visibility platform starts, private, so its branch is frosted. This site begins on 29 November. Three teaching volumes go up in February.
An earlier version of this site, and the teaching volumes, were later cut. Their branches end in a clean break.
Depth · April to July 2026
The deep systems.
The record thickens. Client work: changes merged into a client’s website, named here by industry only (heating and cooling). OfOne, the decision method, on 13 May. Plimsoll on 10 June, now the thickest branch on the specimen: 266 of its beads.
He also forked Dan McInerney’s Architect Loopand hardened it. The design is Dan’s; the credit says so, and one of James’s fixes was merged back into Dan’s project.
Depth · August 2026
The fleet goes public.
In the week of 22 to 27 August his agents merged 147 changes across six repositories, with 102 agents running at the peak. On one of those days, 1,705 agent runs produced a single merge. That became the rule: merged on main, or it does not exist.
BORG, the shared memory his agents use, went public on 29 August, free to install.
Depth · September 2026
Consolidation.
Plimsoll shipped 45 releases in 20 days. The Of One sites moved onto one template (frosted: that repository is private), and the method got its three words, Ask, Map, Move. EEGT, an open notebook asking whether computer models “hear” the same patterns in brainwaves, went public: 9 releases so far, and every main result marked inconclusive.
On 27 September he commissioned this site.
The tip · now
Still hot.
Read from GitHub on 27 Sep 2026. What he’s working on now →
In his words
I'm really a believer in empowerment, and I want to empower people more than anything.
Ask why is this happening not what is happening.
You need to at times kill parts of yourself. Cut the branches of your soul. They feel integral. They are what is holding you back. Cut them off and in their place a new branch will grow.
Ways in
Anyone can be an Army.
Work with his team
Build with Utlyze’s build-with-you coaches, get your business found with New Reward, or run background checks with Vuplicity.
Ways to work together →Use what he gave away
BORG, Plimsoll, the OfOne method and the EEGT notebook are open source. Install them, fork them, fix them.
Start with BORG →Follow the work
Short notes on X as it happens, and longer build notes on Utlyze, each one credited to him and to the AI models that wrote it with him.
@of1ai →Write to him
If you’re curious and want to build this way, say so. He reads it.
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