Research, product, code.

Gareth Paul Jones

Gareth talking at his desk, both hands raised beside his face. AI colour treatment of his original photograph.
At the desk, thinking out loud.
AI-treated portrait

AI colour treatment using GPT-Image-2, based on Gareth’s original photograph. The treatment is not an unaltered documentary photograph.

Product Lead, AIPoe / Quora

I like the part where research meets a real product.

Deciding what good behavior looks like, finding a way to test it, and staying close enough to build the first version.

A little more about me

Things I’ve made

Small apps for everyday use.

JonesAudio macOS · Voice to text

“I wanted to dictate without touching the keyboard.”

Press fn + Space, speak, and the words appear where your cursor was. A menu-bar app for catching a thought before it disappears.

The app & why I built it
JonesAudio’s transcription window showing “This is a test testing one two three.”, microphone selection, and Close controls.
JonesAudio · screenshot detailOriginal screenshot ↗

Working it out, on camera

Agent systems · Livestream

Managing Coding Agents with Swimlanes

An operating model for keeping parallel coding agents legible, scoped, and moving.

Watch the working session

Notes from the work

API Explorer Design

At Twilio, developer feedback led us back to the code snippets.

Developer experienceRead the note

The Foursquare AR experiment

A prototype, a lukewarm response, and a lesson in starting with a real user need.

Product decisionsRead the reflection

Away from the desk

Most of my spare time is with my wife and daughter. The rest tends to disappear into building, livestreaming, golf, or taking something apart to understand it.

The person behind the work