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smorin/README.md

Hi there πŸ‘‹

Hi, I'm Steve πŸ‘‹

πŸ“ New York City ↔ San Francisco | πŸ§ͺ VP of Engineering @ Flox | πŸš€ Former: Founder & Asana, Instagram, & Yahoo!

Working with Ron Efroni on the future of agentic infrastructure β€” reproducible environments, deterministic agents, and the build loop after CI/CD. Leading Flox's AI transformation across engineering.

Rust TypeScript Nix Bun Hono Python Go GCP PostgreSQL Claude Codex SwiftUI Swift CLI macOS Web

If it isn't reproducible, it didn't happen. Spending most of 2026 figuring out how engineering org workflows change when agents do the typing.

🌱 flox.dev β€” open source infra for reproducible environments and agentic workflows.

Start Here

  • 🌱 Flox β€” reproducible dev environments built on Nix, the AI-transformation layer for your build loop
  • 🎀 GitHub Universe 2026 β€” two panels on agentic infrastructure (see Speaking below)
  • πŸ¦‰ thoth β€” multi-provider deep-research CLI; orchestrates OpenAI Deep Research + Perplexity in parallel
  • πŸ“Ί TikTok / @stevemorinnyc β€” making AI concepts make sense for people who don't have time to read papers

Current Projects

  • πŸ¦‰ thoth β€” AI-powered research assistant; CLI that runs deep technical research across OpenAI and Perplexity in parallel and ships clean, citable reports
  • πŸŒ€ thothspinner β€” Claude Code-inspired TUI animation library for Python (Rich-based): spinners, progress bars, timers, shimmer effects
  • πŸ“ envgen β€” Generate and validate .env files from a single spec; self-documenting, consistent across environments, secrets stay out of git
  • πŸ“ agent2linear β€” Linear CLI built for humans and AI agents; optimized to minimize token usage and context-window waste
  • πŸ”€ toggle β€” Rust CLI + library for toggling, adding, removing, and updating code/comments across many languages, with configurable extension mappings
  • 🌳 worktreeflow β€” CLI for spinning up git worktrees against OSS projects and managing PRs without losing your mind
  • 🐍 py-launch-blueprint β€” Production-ready Python project template with the best practices already wired in
  • 🌱 filegardener β€” File maintenance utilities: dedup, only-copy detection, prune empty dirs
  • πŸͺ¨ substrata β€” Foundational tooling layer (WIP)
  • πŸ“¦ vagrant-flow β€” Vagrant plugin for a seamless dev-to-prod workflow with Ansible; auto-generates inventory files, runs playbooks, manages hostfiles

What I'm Building at Flox

  • 🧬 Flox CLI extension system β€” Rust port of the gh extension architecture, with environment inheritance and a phased rollout plan
  • πŸ“Š nixpkgs vs Homebrew strategic dashboard β€” coverage, freshness, overlap; informing where Flox lifts vs. competes
  • πŸ€– Codex-plugin-shaped long-running agent β€” broker / job-tracking architecture inspired by the OpenAI Codex plugin for Claude Code
  • πŸš€ AI transformation β€” helping transform culture to be AI First: pair programming show-and-tells, tooling standardization (Anthropic + OpenAI), shipping real features, producing artifacts to train the rest of the org

Speaking

  • 🎀 GitHub Universe 2026 β€” Secure every commit track "From Vibes to Verified: Engineering Deterministic, Secure Agents" with Ron Efroni (Flox), Dex Horthy (HumanLayer/CodeLayer), Ankur Goyal (Braintrust)

Previously

  • πŸ›« CTO, Tripping.com (acquired by HomeToGo)
  • πŸ“Έ Engineering Leadership, Instagram
  • βœ… Engineering Leadership, Asana
  • πŸ“ž Engineering, AT&T

GitHub Activity

GitHub Contribution Graph

What I'm Doing

  • Leading an AI transformation β€” pair programming workflows, tooling standardization (Anthropic + OpenAI), shipping the boring rails so the interesting work compounds
  • Teaching AI on TikTok β€” translating agentic patterns for engineers who don't live on hn
  • Hiring β€” Flox is bringing on contractors and full-timers around platform + Nix work
  • Hiking β€” the only meeting I never reschedule

Connect

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Philosophy

"Reproducible or it didn't happen." Most engineering wins are unglamorous: shorter feedback loops, fewer special snowflakes, more determinism. Agents amplify whichever side of that ledger you've invested in.

Random Facts
  • Run multiple Claude/Codex instances in parallel; the bottleneck is reading their output, not generating it
  • Powered by Pacific Heights fog and two kids' worth of pre-7am energy
  • Believe most "AI transformation" is just finally writing down what your senior engineers already do
  • Hiker first, VP second
  • Self-aware about context-switching across N projects; building tooling so the switching tax goes to zero

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  1. smorinlabs/envgen smorinlabs/envgen Public

    Generate and validate .env files from one spec - self-documenting config, consistent across environments, secrets stay out of git.

    Rust 2

  2. agent2linear agent2linear Public

    agent2linear is a command-line interface for Linear designed to work seamlessly with both humans and AI agents. Unlike Linear's web interface or standard APIs, agent2linear is built to minimize tok…

    TypeScript 6 2

  3. thoth thoth Public

    AI-Powered Research Assistant - Command-line tool that automates deep technical research using multiple LLM providers

    Python 3 1

  4. toggle toggle Public

    A Rust-based CLI and library for toggling, adding, removing, and updating code/comments across multiple languages, featuring flexible extension mappings and full configurability via file or command…

    Rust

  5. thothspinner thothspinner Public

    Claude Code inspired animation TUI component, a configurable progress indicator library for Python, built on Rich. ThothSpinner provides beautiful, composable terminal UI components including spinn…

    Python

  6. filegardener filegardener Public

    File gardener - file maintenance utilities - file dedup, only copy detection, prune empty dirs

    Python 9 1