# Arach Tchoupani

> Engineer, founder, builder. 15 years shipping product across 4 venture-backed companies. Currently building voice-first tools and exploring what happens when AI gives one person the leverage of twenty.

This is the personal website of Arach Tchoupani — blog posts, projects, and writing about engineering, startups, and AI.

- Website: https://arach.io
- Portfolio: https://arach.dev
- RSS: https://arach.io/rss.xml
- Agent profile: https://arach.io/agents
- Agent data (JSON): https://arach.io/agents/index.json
- Agent data (Markdown): https://arach.io/agent.md

## Blog Posts

- [Voice Canvas: Building with What We Have](https://arach.io/posts/voice-canvas-ai-exploration/): Reflections on AI's current capabilities and exploring voice-first interfaces as the next evolution of human-computer interaction. (2025-11-18)
- [The Infinite Bespoke Magic Paste Machine](https://arach.io/posts/infinite-bespoke-magic-paste-machine/): 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. (2025-08-08)
- [Shipped my first NPM package - meet SpeakEasy 🎤](https://arach.io/posts/my-first-npm-package-speakeasy/): The journey of creating and publishing SpeakEasy, a unified text-to-speech library with smart caching and multiple provider support. (2025-08-06)
- [AI Theater vs. Real Transformation: How to Tell Who's Actually Building the Future](https://arach.io/posts/ai-theater-vs-real-transformation/): 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. (2025-07-25)
- [The Return of Personal Leverage: How AI Restored CTOs' Power](https://arach.io/posts/ai-restored-cto-personal-leverage/): 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. (2025-07-22)
- [2048-ish: A Quick Experiment in Agentic Gameplay](https://arach.io/posts/2048ish-agentic-game-experiment/): A simple exploration of adding AI agent gameplay to the classic 2048 puzzle game. (2025-07-21)
- [The Ladder's Gone. Now What?](https://arach.io/posts/ladderless-path/): Big companies are cutting entry-level jobs and calling it AI strategy. Meanwhile, the people they're not hiring are just... building stuff anyway. (2025-07-18)
- [AI-Assisted Development One Year Later](https://arach.io/posts/ai-assisted-development-2025-update/): Reflecting on my journey with AI-assisted development and what's changed in the past year (2025-05-29)
- [Voice-First Development: My Complete Workflow and Tools](https://arach.io/posts/voice-first-development-workflow/): A deep dive into coding with voice - the tools, setup, best practices, and real examples from my daily workflow (2025-01-16)
- [AI-Driven Web Automation: Building the Action Layer](https://arach.io/posts/web-for-agents/): 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.  (2024-06-11)
- [The Lasting Impact of Plaid's Innovation](https://arach.io/posts/the-lasting-impact-of-plaids-innovation/): 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. (2024-06-03)
- [Starting to get the hang of AI assisted development](https://arach.io/posts/get-the-hang-of-ai-assisted-development/): cursor + copilot + GPT4 = 🚀 -> Notes on AI amplified development (2024-05-13)
- [Enhancing Automation and Integration in the AI-driven Era](https://arach.io/posts/api-for-the-ai-age/): We need to reassess the gap between UIs and APIs in the age of AI (2024-04-30)
- [My New Blog, Powered by Astro 🚀](https://arach.io/posts/my-new-blog-stack/): An overview of the new stack behind my blog. (2024-01-31)

## Projects

- Talkie (https://usetalkie.com): Native voice-to-action. Push-to-talk, on-device Whisper, multi-provider LLM routing.
- HUD (https://hud.arach.dev): Chrome-style UI components for canvas apps. Pan/zoom, panels, command palette, terminal drawer.
- Devmux (https://devmux.arach.dev): Claude Code + dev server in tmux. Auto-detects stack, session persistence, menu bar companion.
- SpeakEasy: Unified TTS library. ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Groq, Gemini, system voices — one CLI.
- Fabric: Agentic compute fabric. Isolated sandboxes for AI agents with snapshots and state persistence.

## Tech Stack

- languages: TypeScript, Swift, Go, Rust, Python
- frontend: React, Next.js, Astro, TailwindCSS, SwiftUI
- backend: Node.js, Bun, Hono, PostgreSQL, Redis
- native: Swift, Tauri v2, WebRTC, Whisper
- ai/ml: Claude, OpenAI, Groq, Gemini, ElevenLabs, RLHF
- infra: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Vercel

## Contact

- GitHub: https://github.com/arach
- X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/arach
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arach
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/arach
- Email: mailto:arach@tchoupani.com