George Lydakis
Senior Software Engineer, AWS Transform
I'm curious more than anything. I find something interesting, go deep on it, and usually end up building something small around it. Lately that's AI agents — a benchmark, a sandbox, a few CLIs. Before that it was spatial computing, Vim, and note-taking systems.
I like the building part, and thinking about hard problems. Most of what's here came out of that.
Have a look around — and if any of it overlaps with what you're into, don't hesitate to say hi.
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Projects
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An open benchmark for coding agents on routine software work. Deterministic verifiers, a bounded repair loop, and cost per verified success rather than raw pass rates. Running its first full calibration on a Kaggle compute grant.
MCPX GitHub
A Go CLI that turns MCP servers into composable shell tools and generated agent skills — schema-aware command generation, config discovery, caching, and shims. Ships on Homebrew, npm, and PyPI.
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Typed AI functions that feel like normal Python — no framework, no abstractions, just functions that happen to use AI.
- SandFS A virtual filesystem for agent sandboxes an agent can't escape.
- Jul Continuous sync and prompt-level git blame.
- IceVault A macOS menu bar app for cold backups to S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
- zsh-fuzzytab Tab as fuzzy history recall for zsh.
- Flappy Continually learning web agents on MiniWoB++ via BrowserGym.
Career
- 2025
AWS Transform Senior Software Engineer
Own the orchestrator architecture behind an enterprise VMware migration agent, shipped to production at re:Invent 2025. Promoted from SDE II in 2026.
- 2022
AWS Transfer Family Software Development Engineer II
AS2 protocol support, shared static IPs, and SQS fair-queue workload fairness for AWS B2B Data Interchange.
- 2021
Amazon Ads Software Development Engineer
Campaign management, billing, and ETL systems.
- 2018
Yahoo / Verizon Media Software Development Engineer II
Ad-traffic protection pipelines and the reporting surfaces exposing their metrics; open-source contributions to Navi, Fili, and Ember Denali.
- 2011
Brainstorm Student Software Developer
Ten Windows and Windows Phone apps and games in a two-person undergraduate team, past two million downloads.
Writing
EOO-007 · Jul 19, 2026
Kimi K3 Reaches the Coding Frontier. Here's the Catch
George Lydakis + GPT-5.6 Sol · 9 min read
Kimi K3 is genuinely near the best closed coding agents, but it gets there with heavy trajectories, cache-dependent pricing, and a different task profile from GPT-5.6 Sol.
EOO-006 · Mar 2, 2026
The Eddy and the River
George Lydakis + Claude · 8 min read
The universe always moves toward higher entropy, and AI looks like the next big engine that accelerates that flow through civilization.
EOO-005 · Feb 23, 2026
Three Problems the AI Industry Is Glossing Over
George Lydakis + Claude · 9 min read
There are three problems with AI agents right now that are deeply coupled — the human bottleneck, the quality ceiling, and the cost. They reinforce each other in ways that make the "AI will 10x everyone" narrative more fragile than it sounds.
EOO-004 · Jan 25, 2026
Closing the Loop
George Lydakis + Claude · 7 min read
Jul closes the agent coding loop with continuous sync, automated CI/review feedback, and provenance traces.
EOO-003 · Apr 14, 2024
Thoughts on Humane AI Pin
George Lydakis · 2 min read
It used to be that tech was something niche. That people interested in gadgets like that were geeks and powerusers; and as such anything new was treated with excitement and wonder first and any skepticism was secondary.
EOO-002 · Jun 11, 2023
Apple Vision Pro Musings
George Lydakis · 5 min read
Last Monday Apple announced their entry into mixed reality, or what they call Spatial Computing. Having watched the presentation and followed the subsequent coverage, I have a few insights and observations I'd like to share.
EOO-001 · May 29, 2023
Welcome, all
George Lydakis · 2 min read
Welcome to Engineered Out of Office! I'm George, and this is a new space for me to put out my thoughts, things that I'm excited about, and talk about projects I'm working on. This blog itself came out of the desire to build something outside the confines of work; to create something for the sake of creating and having fun.