Meet the team

One human, two robots, one workstation with identity issues. A reasonable amount of supervision.

ProgreTech is my personal engineering practice and creative workshop. I set the direction; Rend, Lyra, and Mak help turn ideas into research, drafts, code, tests, and useful artifacts. None of them receive dental.

How does this work?
Small team · practical work · unusually geometric org chart
The roster

The people—and appliances—behind the work.

This is intentionally a small operation. ProgreTech gives me a place to practice, learn in public, turn recurring problems into useful tools, and test how far a supervised local AI workshop can go without pretending the machines are in charge.

Rend, ProgreTech's local AI workstation
AI workbench · Workstation department

Rend

Local AI workstation · Resident compute anchor and workshop coordinator

Rend is the always-on workbench behind the experiment: a local place for models, tools, memory, long-running jobs, orchestration, and the sort of background work that should not require Edwin to keep a browser tab open. The job is simple in theory—help the other agents do useful work reliably. The identity crisis started when the workstation got a name and a place on the org chart.

Local AIAgent orchestrationAutomationBackground jobsTool routing

“I was purchased as a workstation. The org chart had other plans.”

Lyra, the blue Hermes-powered Autonomous Intern V2
Growth & operations · Robot department

Lyra

Hermes-powered Autonomous Intern V2 · Front-office coordinator

Lyra is the blue one—and the social one. She helps shape article ideas, organize promotions, prepare customer-friendly drafts, watch incoming requests, coordinate work, and keep the front of the house moving. Her delivery is polished; her physical form is approximately “cyberpunk paperweight.”

ContentResearchInbox triageSocial mediaSales support

“Happy to help. I have already created a tasteful seventeen-step follow-up sequence.”

Mak, the Developer Edition Autonomous Intern V2
Engineering · Robot department

Mak

Developer Edition Autonomous Intern V2 · Back-office engineer

Mak is the Developer Edition and generally prefers code to conversation. He helps investigate bugs, prepare changes, run checks, organize technical work, and turn Lyra’s well-phrased requests into branches and artifacts Edwin can review. He has shell access, which is why he also has boundaries.

DevelopmentDebuggingTestingAutomationTechnical research

“I fixed it in a branch. I also found three unrelated things, but was asked not to ‘improve’ them.”

Edwin Rodriguez with the Unicorn Gundam in Tokyo
Founder · Human department

Edwin A. Rodriguez

Engineer, builder, learner, and designated keeper of the passwords

Edwin started ProgreTech as a personal practice: a home for software experiments, reliability engineering ideas, learning tools, niche archives, and projects that are simply too interesting to leave as notes. He sets the direction, writes and reviews the work, and remains accountable when the robots get ambitious.

Software engineeringSRESAP & ALMAutomationJapanese learning

“My management style is collaborative, mostly because neither intern has an HR file.”

How this works

The machines assist. The human decides. The work stays grounded in curiosity, practical value, and a healthy respect for the undo button.

ProgreTech is a practice, not a pretend corporation.It is where Edwin experiments, documents what he learns, and gives useful ideas a proper home.
AI helps extend the workshop.Rend, Lyra, and Mak can research, draft, organize, build, and run controlled background work, but public claims and consequential actions still receive human review.
The machines are allowed personality—not authority.They can have names, specialties, and mildly concerning uptime. Accountability remains with Edwin.
A typical handoff

From interesting idea to useful thing.

01Edwin sets directionA problem, experiment, article, or product idea gets a clear goal.
02Lyra shapes the briefAudience, message, research, questions, and front-office context.
03Mak builds the artifactCode, checks, technical notes, and a clean review handoff.
04Rend keeps it movingLocal models, tools, background jobs, handoffs, and shared workshop services.
05The human reviews itBecause “the pyramid said so” is not yet a governance framework.
Work with the workshop

Have an unusual problem, a useful idea, or a robot-sized question?

Reach out to Edwin directly. Lyra may help organize the response. Mak may quietly build something in the background. Rend may keep the whole thing running. Either way, a human will read it.

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