Trevor Spires

Building & teaching
with AI agents.

Applied AI Architect @ Anthropic

I design agentic systems — and help people learn to build with them. Mostly I’m here to make the hard parts make sense.

Background

I work at the seam between people and capable software. As an Applied AI Architect at Anthropic, I help teams turn frontier models into agents that actually do the work — reliable, well-scoped, and trusted enough to hand real tasks to.

Almost everything I know, I learned by building it myself — usually solo, usually from scratch. Home systems that run themselves, pipelines that research and write without me in the loop, small agents that quietly handle the busywork of a day. I build in the open — sharing the wins and the dead ends as I go — and I teach the same way, on camera and in writing, because the fastest way to understand a thing is to build it, then explain it to someone else.

I’m less interested in demos than in the unglamorous middle: the guardrails, the feedback loops, the moment an agent stops being a toy and becomes something you’d trust with your morning.

Worldview
A few facts
U.S. Air Force veteran
Thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail
15 years of hands-on experience
Hobby farmer, off the clock