hi, i'm ilan.

I'm fascinated by interfaces: digital, physical, and human. Currently building tools for research at OpenAI.

Posts

Reverse engineering Lyft bikes for fun (and profit?) – Jan 2026

Projects

Shell AI – Delightfully minimal shell assistant
Swarm, Twilio, CUA, Realtime, Codex – Open source OpenAI repos
Mastermind, Liar's Dice, Codenames – Game-playing AIs
Spelling Bee, Minesweeper – Puzzle generators for the unreasonably opinionated

Talks & Demos

Ilan’s Strawberries – OpenAI Dev Day Keynote, 2024
RFT, DPO, SFT: Fine-tuning with OpenAI – AI Engineer World’s Fair, 2025
Function Calling is All You Need – AI Engineer Summit, 2025