Jonathan Gompels
Human geography student at the University of Reading, and builder of tools that make
machine work accountable.
Work
Public repositories including
patchwork-audit, an audit trail for AI coding agents
that hash-chains every file read, write and command;
yap-protocol, an open protocol for AI agents to talk to
each other on behalf of their users;
orchestrator-toolkit, automation infrastructure
including a 5,600-line ArcGIS Pro knowledge bundle;
pc-deck-7710, a Pioneer-style VFD music visualiser in C;
moonshot, a real-physics spaceflight sim; and
servus-deutsch, an Austrian German reader.
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Geography
Research on the uneven geography of generative AI access:
a dissertation on how University
of Reading students and local residents find, fund and learn to use AI tools,
a policy briefing on unequal
access to generative AI in UK higher education, and
an autoethnography of
AI-assisted development. The full register.
Experience
Professional work:
AI automation at The Virtual Forge and
legal technology at Scissero.
The full record.
Games
COOKD is a free phone-first party game
from Blank Canvas Games: one link, a
four-character lobby code, a score that follows you all night, and a burn reveal for
whoever finishes last. More games.
Elsewhere
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