IUSTIN TARGOVET
AMSTERDAM
ENGINEERING LEADER
ARTICLES
Castle of cardsEvery ambitious person is building a castle of cards in a tornado. The only way up is row by row, from a base wide enough for the ambition, and rebuilding with a smile every time it falls.SEP 2026Why we drinkAlcohol does one job well and charges far too much for it. I want to build the thing that does the job without the bill, and then the thing after that.SEP 2026Foundation ZeroA machine that reads the common conscience of online crowds, starting with Twitch chat.SEP 2026Orchestrating a fleet of coding agentsThe bottleneck in agent-heavy engineering is operations, not prompting. With a September 2026 postscript on what survived.JUL 2026Two startups, two endingsReplica and DataPrysm, told as they happened: one company alive and running without me, one winding down with me.JUL 2026