Fundamentals first.

I've been writing software for nearly 40 years. In 1999 I co-founded Pipeworks Software, where we shipped more than 30 commercial video games and built several proprietary 3D engines. Games are unforgiving: fixed frame budgets, tight memory, hardware that doesn't care about your deadline. That's where I learned to write code that works the first time and keeps working.

Today I spend my time at the intersection of that discipline and AI. I build agent orchestration systems, real-time computer vision pipelines, and the tooling that makes coding agents productive. I use AI tools every day — which is exactly why I know where they cut corners.

Threadbull exists because a lot of companies now have code that was written fast and never engineered. I help them fix it, and I help teams build AI systems that are reliable from the start. When you hire Threadbull, you work with me directly.

— Dan Duncalf