Xavier Basset

AI • Software • Engineering • Entrepreneur

I love building stuff around natural interfaces, and pragmatic AI-use cases. Always learning.
Sometimes training a model or two is fun.

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Built Hoomano, co-led an AI research lab, shipped AI-powered assistants used by 1000+ people.

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Projects and open source work

Non-fork public repositories and selected open source work I have contributed to, newest first.

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Personal projects

2026

Code-native newspaper for meaningful software change.

Interactive HTML learning experience built around scroll-driven progression.

2025

GitHub CLI extension that turns commit history into structured release notes.

Tool for capturing developer intent and product impact from commit history.

Notebook tokenizer inspired by Andrej Karpathy's rustbpe work.

Minimal evaluation framework for LLM consistency on a letter-counting task.

Game-style project about growing a green economy and reducing CO2 emissions.

Voice assistant for managing inbound calls.

Git-based working memory management for LLM applications.

2024

Real-time voice interface toolkit for AI assistant experimentation.

CLI for playing with the /dev/agents easter egg.

VS Code companion project for the Instruct workflow.

Tooling to create, run, and evaluate instructions for foundational models.

2023

Python project for a lightweight daily poetry workflow.

Notebook project for automatic document chunking in retrieval augmented generation workflows.

Open source contributions

2024

2022