My job was to keep Replicate weird. I organized the events that made the hackspace a gathering point for open-source AI, including the WorldSim event, the demo that kicked off the year of simulative AI. Wrote the newsletter, ran the Twitter, shaped how the company talked about itself, and doubled the growth rate.
Projects
Repflix: I trained video fine-tunes in the style of Twin Peaks, Pixar, Arcane, Dune, and more. Built the whole thing: data curation, model training, Netflix-style frontend for comparing outputs.
mcp-replicate: First MCP server for Replicate. 90 stars. They later shipped their own official hosted version building on this pattern.
Hodels
40+ models on Replicate. FLUX fine-tunes like flux-utopian-scholastic and flux-bg3. Hunyuan video fine-tunes: Twin Peaks, Pixar, La La Land, Pulp Fiction, Arcane, Dune, Cowboy Bebop, Spider-Verse.
Highlights
WorldSim: I organized the Nous Research x Replicate event in March 2024. Karan Malhotra demoed WorldSim using janus’s CLooI. swyx filmed it—800K+ views. I framed it as “alpha leaked to Twitter” and it became a cultural object. Latent Space called it the start of the Summer of Simulative AI.
AI slop: I’m credited with popularizing the term by Scientific American (though I maintain it was mostly Simon). It was selected as Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2025.
Events: 8 events organized at the hackspace. The Nous meetup was called “the first meetup in years that feels like SF is back.” 200+ people at the AgentOps event. The AI Art Show celebrated a year of open-source creativity.
Replicate was acquired by Cloudflare in November 2025.