rico.wtf

Hey, I'm Rico.

Professional klanker wrangler — I point AI agents at real problems for real clients. In between prompts, I build with Elixir & Bubble. Agile coach for over a decade, still allergic to ceremony.

A klanker is what I call an AI agent that does real work. Managing a fleet of them is a job now. It's mine.

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Rico Trevisan

What I do

Klanker manager

I run fleets of AI agents that ship real work: code, plugins, documents, analysis. Most of the job is deciding what "done" means, reviewing like I mean it, and noticing when a confident agent is confidently wrong. I do this at Unblock Labs.

Developer — Elixir & Bubble

Elixir and Phoenix on one side (dstar, Bubble tooling, things that read other people's apps); Bubble on the other, where I build plugins and the tools that build them. I spend a lot of time on the bridge between the two worlds.

Agile coach

Over a decade of coaching teams, currently through Agilar with a European procurement department of the world's largest condiments company. I fold Mochary Method habits into that work where they actually help.

The klanker log

What my agents shipped, broke, and did something absurd with lately.

Note

Claude co-signed the public release of bubble_ex

The initial public release commit of bubble_ex carries a co-author trailer for Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context). Not "assisted by" — co-signed. I left it in the history because it is true, and because in a year nobody will believe me otherwise.

The repo reads a Bubble app and turns what it finds into Elixir. Three of its 93 commits are agent-involved, all in the first week. The rest are me, arguing with the output.

Shipped

Thirty-five commits in one evening, and the review that followed

One day of agent work added roughly 35 commits and built the entire Dstar.Page layer of dstar. The repo sits at 66 of 105 commits agent-involved — 63%, all Claude, mostly a mix of Fable 5, Opus 5 and Opus 4.8.

Generation is cheap now. What took the rest of the week was judgement:

  • reviewing a layer I did not write, in a codebase I care about
  • walking back a release that only existed to retract a warning that was never a bug
  • catching the commit that fixed SSE frame injection via carriage returns

The agents write. I decide what "done" means. That is the job.

What's a klanker?

Projects

Things I've built.

16 projects in total — Elixir libraries, Bubble plugins, the tools that build them, and a few products. The full inventory, including the retired experiments, lives on the projects page.

dstar

The Datastar toolkit for Elixir. An experiment that got out of hand, now 26 stars and a demo site.

Tiptap for Bubble

Rich text editor with real-time collaboration. Around 2.5k Bubble apps use it.

Pled

CLI for Bubble plugin development. Every Bubble plugin I ship is built with it.

tiptap.rico.wtf

Hosted collaboration server for the Tiptap plugin: live cursors, presence, sync, HTML back to Bubble.

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Klankers

What's a klanker?

A klanker is an AI agent that does real work, and managing them is now a job title — here is what that job actually involves.

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About

I'm Belgian, based in Brussels. My father once brought home a smuggled i486sx computer. My brothers and I promptly took it apart to see how it worked, and that was that.

Since then: IT support, a decade of agile coaching, and building the tools I kept wishing existed. Today I manage fleets of AI agents at Unblock Labs, still coach agile teams, and write software in Elixir and Bubble.

The personality comes through best in the klanker log.

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