Who I Am

I'm Tyson Hummel, a software engineer with 20+ years building and shipping production systems for enterprise clients across banking, retail, and insurance. Today I'm the creator and lead maintainer of DinoStack, an open-source methodology for operating AI coding agents.

What I Work On

The model isn't the bottleneck anymore. The operator's attention is. As AI gets good enough to write and finish code accurately, the scarce resource stops being whether the machine can build something and becomes where the engineer points their attention. The job shifts: less time writing code by hand, more time specifying what to build and verifying that it is right. That shift is what I work on.

DinoStack

DinoStack is an open-source methodology for operating AI coding agents. It concentrates the operator's attention at two gates, specification and verification, and runs the work in between under a structure that keeps output thorough and trustworthy, surfacing only the decisions that genuinely need a human. The same protocol runs across nine AI coding tools, from Claude Code to Cursor to Codex. It reduces error rates and improves completeness.

Operator

Specify

Say what to build and what done looks like.

DinoStack

Build

DinoStack does the building and holds the work to your spec.

Operator

Verify

Review the output and tweak the project or task specs as needed.

DinoStack: Agentic Engineering Framework overview. Seven capabilities - classifies risk, delegates to specialists, reviews adversarially, verifies behavior, manages context, self-improving, and portable across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, and more.

Independent Review

An adversarial review loop where the agent that writes the code never reviews its own work.

Built For Scale

One methodology with 9 tool adapters, 16 named specialist agents, and 18 workflow commands.

Open Source

Apache-2.0 licensed and actively developed, with the full methodology documented at docs.dinostack.ai.

Read the DinoStack docs

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Experience

  • AI-Powered Automation
  • Intelligent Assistants & Chatbots
  • Content Generation Systems
  • AI Strategy & Implementation
  • Custom AI Tool Development
  • AI Integration into Existing Systems
  • Business Process Automation
  • Automated Reporting & Alerts
  • Data Collection & Processing
  • System Integrations
  • Scheduled Task Automation
  • No-Touch Content Pipelines
  • Custom Business Applications
  • E-Commerce Solutions
  • User-Friendly Interfaces
  • Mobile-Responsive Design
  • Database Design & Management
  • Secure Payment Processing
  • Technical Team Leadership
  • Project Planning & Execution
  • Client Communication
  • Technology Roadmapping
  • Mentoring & Training
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration

Get in Touch

Working on DinoStack or agentic engineering? Let's talk.