Hi, I'm Arach. I'm building Scout, where people and AI agents from every vendor work as one team. Fifteen years of shipping, founding companies and a stretch at Meta, and everything I've built since led here.
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I'm building Scout, which turns AI agents into trusted teammates. Fifteen years of shipping, founding companies and a stretch at Meta, and everything I've built since led here.
Uber just cut 10% of staff and 20% of managers to fund robotaxis. Elon gave the industry license to flatten. AI moved the budget from humans to data centres. The shortage comes later.
Reflections on AI's current capabilities and exploring voice-first interfaces as the next evolution of human-computer interaction.
We built the most sophisticated Command-V machine in human history and convinced ourselves it was thinking. Here's why that might be even better than intelligence.
While Salesforce brags about AgentForce helping companies 'do the same things with fewer people,' real AI transformation expands capabilities, not just efficiency. Here's how to tell who's building the future versus who's just optimizing the past.
How generative AI didn't democratize coding for beginners—it handed seasoned technical leaders the most powerful leverage they've had in decades, fundamentally reshaping team structures and leadership itself.
A simple exploration of adding AI agent gameplay to the classic 2048 puzzle game.
Big companies are cutting entry-level jobs and calling it AI strategy. Meanwhile, the people they're not hiring are just... building stuff anyway.
Reflecting on my journey with AI-assisted development and what's changed in the past year
A deep dive into coding with voice - the tools, setup, best practices, and real examples from my daily workflow
AI currently lacks an effective action layer, limiting its potential in web automation. This article introduces an architecture to address this gap, offering innovative solutions to enhance AI-driven workflows and interactions with web applications.
Four years ago, I wrote about Plaid’s quirky yet groundbreaking approach to innovation, right around the time of their $5.5B acquisition attempt by Visa that got blocked. Now, I’m diving back in to see how those strategies are shaping the new wave of AI Agents & Automation. In this article, I’ll show you how Plaid’s way of empowering developers, hacking their way to success, and betting big on market potential aligns perfectly with what’s happening in the world of RPA.
cursor + copilot + GPT4 = 🚀 -> Notes on AI amplified development
We need to reassess the gap between UIs and APIs in the age of AI
An overview of the new stack behind my blog.
A design note on Linea’s scoped reading canvas: infinite margins for notes, explicit reading context, and a Spring landing at exact page fit.
The reading app I’m building for difficult material: read, listen, and ask about a passage while keeping the source and your place together.
FIG.01 Arach Tchoupani
Founder, Scout
I'm building Scout, where people and AI agents from every vendor work as one team. Fifteen years of shipping, founding companies and a stretch at Meta, and everything I've built since led here.
Engineering Leadership, FB Creators
2022-2023
Co-Founder & CTO
2018-2021
Senior Consultant & Architect, Global E-Commerce
2019-2020
VP of Engineering
2016-2017
Founding CTO
2014-2016
No.02 AI agents as teammates
Claude, Codex, Grok and the rest working with you as one team, with one record of who asked, who approved and what shipped.
On the way to Scout
Engineering Leadership, FB Creators
2022-2023
Co-Founder & CTO
2018-2021
Senior Consultant & Architect, Global E-Commerce
2019-2020
VP of Engineering
2016-2017
Founding CTO
2014-2016
Uber just cut 10% of staff and 20% of managers to fund robotaxis. Elon gave the industry license to flatten. AI moved the budget from humans to data centres. The shortage comes later.
Reflections on AI's current capabilities and exploring voice-first interfaces as the next evolution of human-computer interaction.
We built the most sophisticated Command-V machine in human history and convinced ourselves it was thinking. Here's why that might be even better than intelligence.
While Salesforce brags about AgentForce helping companies 'do the same things with fewer people,' real AI transformation expands capabilities, not just efficiency. Here's how to tell who's building the future versus who's just optimizing the past.
How generative AI didn't democratize coding for beginners—it handed seasoned technical leaders the most powerful leverage they've had in decades, fundamentally reshaping team structures and leadership itself.
A simple exploration of adding AI agent gameplay to the classic 2048 puzzle game.
Big companies are cutting entry-level jobs and calling it AI strategy. Meanwhile, the people they're not hiring are just... building stuff anyway.
Reflecting on my journey with AI-assisted development and what's changed in the past year
A deep dive into coding with voice - the tools, setup, best practices, and real examples from my daily workflow
AI currently lacks an effective action layer, limiting its potential in web automation. This article introduces an architecture to address this gap, offering innovative solutions to enhance AI-driven workflows and interactions with web applications.
Four years ago, I wrote about Plaid’s quirky yet groundbreaking approach to innovation, right around the time of their $5.5B acquisition attempt by Visa that got blocked. Now, I’m diving back in to see how those strategies are shaping the new wave of AI Agents & Automation. In this article, I’ll show you how Plaid’s way of empowering developers, hacking their way to success, and betting big on market potential aligns perfectly with what’s happening in the world of RPA.
cursor + copilot + GPT4 = 🚀 -> Notes on AI amplified development
We need to reassess the gap between UIs and APIs in the age of AI
An overview of the new stack behind my blog.
A design note on Linea’s scoped reading canvas: infinite margins for notes, explicit reading context, and a Spring landing at exact page fit.
The reading app I’m building for difficult material: read, listen, and ask about a passage while keeping the source and your place together.
