@kulpritt
Hi, I'm Jesse.
Jesse Kulp
I design software — mostly
the kind that didn't exist yet.
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About me
Dive Club asked me how we
built AI Studio from zero.
Jesse Kulp speaking with Dive Club host Ridd in a split-screen interview
Designing the Future of AI at Google ↗
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I've spent most of my career
on tools for people who build.
Jesse at Google I/O
Fig 1. me, at someone else's keynote
Data pipelines, AI studios, developer platforms. The unglamorous middle layer.
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At Amazon, I designed
for shared everyday tasks.
Amazon Household mobile experience for inviting someone to share benefits
An early lesson in trust: who belongs, what they can access, and who can act for whom.
Work
Then Splunk.
This was the team.
Jesse with the Splunk team
We built Data Stream Processor to help people understand and manage data as it moved through a workflow.
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Building a data pipeline
used to mean flying blind.
You'd assemble the whole thing, ship it, and find out later.
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So we put the real
events on screen.
Splunk Data Stream Processor pipeline builder with live event output and validation controls
The payoff was legibility: understand what the system is doing before trusting it to act across your workflow.
Work
Next, I helped create
the Gemini API experience.
Google AI Studio Live interface
As founding designer for AI Studio, I made the playground where developers could experiment with Gemini, then build with the API.
Work
You could describe a game,
then play it in the same tab.
Watching someone do that for the first time never really got old.
Work
Sound Weaver — one of
the things people made with it.
Sound Weaver in Google AI Studio
Fig 2. shown at Google Cloud Next
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And this was the team
that brought it to life.
Google AI Studio team together at the Gemini Playspace at Google Cloud Next
Fig 3. Gemini Playspace · Google Cloud Next
A lot of different disciplines, one very strange and fun booth.
Now
Now I'm on Apple's
Human Interface team.
Jesse Kulp beneath the Apple Park rainbow
Thinking about what happens to work when software starts acting across it on our behalf.
Experiments
The rest of this
I made because
I wanted to.
Nights and weekends. Nobody asked for any of it.
Experiments
Cohort — what it might feel like
to work with agents as teammates.
Current Cohort workspace showing the Claudia planning channel, agent roster, and repository context
You brief a planner the way you'd brief a colleague, and it comes back with scoped, ordered work.
Experiments
It started at a hackathon
and I haven't stopped poking at it.
Cohort hackathon
Fig 4. Cursor + a16z hackathon
Experiments
Stratos — weather data
as a globe you can turn.
Experiments
A live race hub
for Laguna Seca.
Telemetry, strategy, and race state in one view. I built it for the track, not the couch.
Writing
Some things I'm writing about —
topics that matter in our
industry right now.
  • Taste Was Never the Thing.On emotional connection as the irreducible human moat.
  • The Delegation Stage.Three eras of UI — point-and-click, tap-and-scroll, and what comes next.
  • The Proxy Problem.On AI labs as extra-state actors in geopolitical power struggles.
  • Human in the Loop.On how oversight becomes performative at scale.
Happy to send any of these over — just ask.
Connect
That's the tour.
Thanks for stopping by.
@kulpritt
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