Ryan Saxe

I love picking apart AI and machine learning systems to understand how they work. This site collects my projects, writing, and whatever else I get a little too interested in.

Projects7

pair: commands in a terminal, and a decision page with a comment thread in the browser

pair

Pair programming, now that your agent writes the code.

2026Works on desktop and phone

A sunlit village with a mill and a stone tower, rendered by Gaia from a codebase

Gaia

Turns a codebase into a world you can walk through.

2026TypeScript and a Rust engine

The front page of my edition of The Nightly Build on November 8, 2026

The Nightly Build

Turns a GitHub repository into a personal newspaper that an AI writes and publishes.

2026326 articles published

An agent’s edit, flagged by byor’s post-edit hook and then fixed

byor

Custom code rules for the conventions your linter won’t enforce.

2026Runs in editors, CI and agents

Diagram: a set of cards goes into one shared encoder, which narrows from 512 to 256 to 128 numbers; four heads read those numbers for recommendations, draft picks, deck building and card correlations

CubeCobra ML system

The machine learning system behind CubeCobra’s draft bots and card recommendations.

2020–2026100k monthly users

Magic Arena profile of RyanSaxe AI: January 2022 season, Mythic limited rank #106

MTG drafting AI

A transformer that drafts and builds decks in Magic: The Gathering.

2021–2022Peaked at #27 in Mythic

A battle in Goldfish mode: each player has two creatures, three lands, a Treasure and a poison counter on a green table

Crucible

A Magic: The Gathering format inspired by roguelikes and autobattlers.

2026Play online or in paper