What we call taste is judgment that hasn't been written down yet. I write it down, first as an essay, then as software that applies it. The Ramsay Filter runs a friend's ear for AI prose. Pundit Claims runs my rules for checking what two AI critics said against what happened. My day job is the same idea at company scale: Mission Control turns what experts know but never wrote down into AI workers.
Dave Goldblatt. Product engineer at Mission Control. Founder of FollowUpEasy. San Francisco.
I write essays that turn into software.
Now
November 2026
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Mission Control
Product engineer since April 2026. Enterprise AI deployments under hard constraints: Microsoft identity, mTLS, licensing, customer-data privacy. Customer-facing workflows, the reliability work underneath, and the weekly customer engagements.
Created engOS, measured it, retired the mandatory version. The specifics stay with the customers.
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FollowUpEasy
Founder. It reads your inbox, maps the relationships worth keeping, and drafts the follow-up in your voice. It never sends without you.
Live. Built and operated solo.
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Because of AI
A public registry of measured AI benefits to people. Entries are drafted every day from primary sources and checked by models from two vendors. The checks are public. No human reviews entries.
Open source. Live since October 2026. Covered in Fast Company, 2026-11-11.
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Pundit Claims
What Gary Marcus and Ed Zitron said about AI, and what happened. Their exact words, the dated evidence, and a verdict. Models from Anthropic and OpenAI check every claim.
Open source. Live since October 2026. Updates itself every day.
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Writing
Dave's Quick Hits, over 1,000 subscribers. Start with Two Crashes. The Ramsay Filter is the one I use most, and it comes with a tool.
2007 to now
Widths are true to time.
- 2007 to 2017Facebook, employee #180. Launch readiness for Search through 2B daily queries.
- 2018 to 2020Wavechat, founder and CEO. An audio-first social app. It didn't work as a company.
- 2021 to 2025Vibe Capital, general partner. Deep tech and AI, started before ChatGPT.
- 2025 to nowFollowUpEasy, founder. Built and operated solo.
- Feb 2026Total Recall and The Ramsay Filter.
- Apr 2026 to nowMission Control, product engineer. Enterprise AI deployments and the customer engagements.
- Sep 2026Cookie Calm.
- Oct 2026Because of AI and Pundit Claims.
Also built
- Total Recall. Persistent memory for Claude Code. First version in three hours, launched on Hacker News. Read the case or the source.202 stars on GitHub, 2026-10-23
- The Ramsay Filter. AI slop is one failure mode, uniformity disguised as craft. The essay makes the case; the tool enforces it. Read the case, the essay or the source.Essay February 2026. MIT.
- Cookie Calm. A Chrome extension that rejects optional cookies and dismisses popups, locally, with no account. Read the case or install it.Chrome Web Store. MIT.
Also
Not work.
- In The Winds of Winter, as a character who dies. I donated $20,000 to a wolf sanctuary and a food bank for the privilege. TechCrunch has the story. The book is still coming.
- On a De La Soul record. "Anonymous Nobody".
- An extra in Mystery Science Theater 3000, episode 213, "Atlantic Rim".
- Made a hip-hop album.