Matt Compton
I build AI agents and workflows that take over manual work. Then I measure them: how often they are wrong, what each task costs, and where a person still has to step in.
I am looking for an AI automation or implementation role, building agents and workflows that automate real work. I am open to remote jobs, or hybrid jobs in the Los Angeles area. I prefer full-time but am also open to contract work.
I started building software with AI in January 2025, while I was still working in film & TV production. It has been my main focus since October 2025. I built my first agents in March 2026.
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matt@mattcompton.net
Projects
533issues taken from ticket to merged code, Jul 3 – Oct 2, 2026
A system that takes a written software issue from ticket to merged code. AI coding agents do the work and ask for my help only when they cannot solve a problem on their own.
From July 3 to October 2, 2026, it took 533 issues end to end across five of my own projects. About 17% of them parked at least once.
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7models compared over 16 scored runs, as of Oct 7, 2026
A Windows desktop app I built for the secretary of the Dixie Seniors Golf Association. It turns a handwritten yearly schedule into a typed schedule in Excel, then creates a financial projection based on that schedule.
I built it mainly to have a working set of evals. It runs the same job through several models and scores the results. As of October 7, 2026, it has compared seven models over 16 scored runs.
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72.3%of reviewed drafts approved, 442 of 611
Two AI agents that searched the web for fan events in Southern California, and a third that added each one to my events site as a draft listing. I approved or rejected every draft.
Of the 611 drafts I reviewed, I approved 442, or 72.3%. I shut the agents down on July 16, 2026, when I stopped updating the site.
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How I work
Claude Code writes all the code in these projects. I do not read or write code, except for VBA.
My part is this:
- I decide what to build and how it should behave.
- I have a written spec and a build plan in place before any code is written.
- I test the software myself before anyone else uses it.
Each case study says which design ideas were mine and which were Claude’s proposals that I approved.
My Claude Code skills
A skill is a set of written instructions for a job I repeat. I keep 11 of them, as of October 7, 2026. Claude writes the first draft of each one. I read it and cut it down, because Claude tends to write too much. Some examples:
- One gets a GitHub issue ready for my software pipeline.
- Three “watch” skills supervise the pipeline and bring me in only when it is stuck.
- One tells Claude to be precise in how it talks to me and specifies what it should tell me during a session: what it did, whether it worked, and what I should do next.
Other software I have built
- TrueBudget. A budgeting tool for TV commercial production, built in Excel. I wrote all of its code myself, in VBA. Revolution Entertainment Services acquired it in April 2021, and I worked there as its Product Manager until August 2023. Link ↗
- DSGA scoring file. An Excel file with VBA that I wrote for the Dixie Seniors Golf Association. It speeds up score entry, produces the winners sheet, and drafts the emails sent after each tournament. The league has used it weekly since July 2023.
- Let’s Geek Out website. The events site that the agents fed. AI wrote its code, and I directed it. The site is still up as of October 9, 2026, but I no longer add new events to it. Link ↗
- Budgeting app prototype. A desktop app for commercial production budgets. It is a working prototype, and development is paused. It had about 47,000 lines of code and about 4,800 tests as of August 13, 2026.
Background
I spent 28 years in film & TV production, 23 of them as a Line Producer, Production Manager, or Production Supervisor. I was a Production Assistant on The Blair Witch Project, and I later worked as a Producer and Line Producer on promos and TV specials for Disney Channel.
You can find my full work history on LinkedIn and some of my film & TV credits on IMDb.