About
I’m Tim Schiller — a software developer, founder, and practitioner in the emerging field of autonomous software development.
I run Artificer Digital, where I’m building Artificer Crucible — a platform that connects to your issue tracker, generates implementation plans for human approval, and autonomously writes and ships code. I also publish The Artificer’s Grimoire, a weekly newsletter covering AI agents, context engineering, and orchestration.
I’ve spent 18 years building software professionally, currently as a senior developer at ThoughtFarmer, where I work on intranet and collaboration platforms. That experience — shipping real products at scale, for real organizations — informs everything I build at Artificer Digital.
What I’m Into
- Software engineering — full-stack development with modern frameworks and tooling
- Cloud infrastructure — AWS architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code
- AI and automation — integrating AI-powered workflows into development and business processes
Current Projects
- Artificer Digital — the consultancy
- The Grimoire — weekly intelligence on harness engineering for agentic systems, a practitioner’s field guide
- Formwork — my harness engineering methodology for multi-session agent work
- Artificer Crucible — an autonomous software development platform (coming soon)