Tom Bowyer

Building REPLICATE

If you have spent any time with AI coding agents, you already know the obvious wins: scaffolding projects, writing glue code, churning out boilerplate. I wanted to push on something different. So I built REPLICATE, a digital museum of the history of self-replicating code, spanning seven exhibits from 1949–

Batou: Generation-time SAST for Claude Code (Runtime security, while the AI is typing)

AI coding is fast. Security feedback is usually not. Most SAST runs after the code is written, committed, and pushed. With Claude Code, that gap gets painful because the model can generate vulnerabilities just as quickly as it generates features. We wanted the tightest possible loop: write code → scan it