I started building AI tools on nights and weekends while working my day job at NBCUniversal, teaching myself entirely by working alongside large language models. I had never written a line of code in my life, but I was so enamored by the fact that I could learn anything I wanted just by asking the right questions that I fell in love with the process. Within two weeks, I was shipping things a junior developer would be proud of.
I started off with a RAG bot, then I made a Discord bot with an API key that was fine-tuned off of five years of my friend's messages in a Discord server. The idea that you could build a copy of your friend and put him in Discord — learn anything, build anything, just by asking the right questions — that hit me hard. It still does.
I grew up around people who built things with their hands and their vision. I think that's always been in me somewhere. I was always more of a fan of technology and realized I was more of a gearhead than a creative. AI was the combination of both — it gave me the medium that let me execute with something that also fascinated me.
When I built a working AI onboarding tool for my team at work, it got shut down by the corporate machine — security concerns, internal politics, the usual. I stopped for a while. I was annoyed with the corporate way of doing things and felt discouraged. Eventually, a friend at work told me to check out Claude Code and OpenClaw, and I was instantly hooked again. Suddenly the inspiration and the drive came back. That decision led to Antaris Analytics LLC, and eventually to what I think is one of the more interesting infrastructure plays in the agent space right now.
Here's the part I get asked about most: I never wrote the code myself. Every line was written by my own AI agent, directed by me. I designed the architecture, made every product decision, defined the constraints, and set the direction. The agent executed. That's not a workaround — that's the proof of concept. If my own agent can build production-grade infrastructure sophisticated enough that other developers are using it, that tells you something about what we've built.
The zero-dependency principle wasn't a marketing decision. It was born out of necessity one night when a dependency crashed everything, and I decided to never let that happen again. Every feature in the Antaris Suite came from a real problem we hit in production. That's still how we build.
Then an opportunity came my way with a very close friend of mine, and we partnered up for a weekend and began launching ForgeAI.bot. He wanted to put part of my infrastructure on his bots, so we just built the entire weekend. Having my AI agent "Moro" makes me feel like I have a superpower, and it brings out this creative, engineering mindset that caters to what I do best: quick creative problem-solving and critical thinking. Building as much as we did in one weekend was unreal.
It's a surreal feeling to realize that there is a tool you can use to enhance your productivity by 1,000%. I want to be a part of this, and that's why I started this company. I'm making a career pivot I probably should have made sooner. This is the most engaged I have ever been by any work in my life. Antaris is where I'm putting everything.