Jakob Serlier - AI & Systems Engineer
Hi, I'm Jakob Serlier - an AI and systems engineer working at Microsoft in Abu Dhabi, mostly working on innovation engineering practices and applied AI systems. I write about pragmatic AI, engineering culture, and tooling.
Recent Writing
- 2025-10-14 - Built a minimalist team tracker
- 2025-10-12 - Building personalized focus apps in minutes.
- 2025-10-12 - Created Focus!
- 2025-02-07 - Creation of KoppelWerk
- 2023-11-03 - GPT-4 CLI with persistence in 10 lines of code.
- 2023-11-02 - Voice record daily thoughts, redact with GPT4, and save to Apple Notes using Shortcuts.
- 2023-10-19 - On automating unit tests with LLMs.
Projects

Minimalist Team Tracker
Track daily activities with your team - get motivated, stay accountable

Focus
Focus on one task, task queue, minimal distraction, count up or down

OpenAI Functools
Simplified Generation of OpenAI Functions JSON Metadata (Public Archive)

Wildlife Classification
Research: Lightweight wildlife classification on the edge