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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Founded a company to make robots more human, 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

Hoomy

Open-source AI companion for meaningful progress, with your attention in mind.

thegitreporter

Code-native newspaper for meaningful software change.

scroll-to-learn

Interactive HTML learning experience built around scroll-driven progression.

2025

gh-release-notes

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

gitsummary

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

karpatokenizer

Notebook tokenizer inspired by Andrej Karpathy's rustbpe work.

deepseek-r1-eval

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

econova

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

voxlink

Voice assistant for managing inbound calls.

memgit

Git-based working memory management for LLM applications.

2024

rico-lebot

Real-time voice interface toolkit for AI assistant experimentation.

wopr

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

vscode-instruct

VS Code companion project for the Instruct workflow.

instruct

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

2023

daily-poetry

Python project for a lightweight daily poetry workflow.

auto-chunk

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

Open source contributions

2024

2022