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MatthewGroff.

VP of Technology at Elios

Software. Agents. MCP.
And the teams behind them.

Matthew Groff

About me.

I lead Forward Deployed Engineering
and Internal Tools Engineering @ Elios.

Full-stack Software Engineer. Developer of Agents, MCP, Web, and more.

Husband. Dog-dad. Theme-park enjoyer. Based in Orlando, Florida.

How should we estimate work when agents write the code?

My starting proposal for Attention-First Engineering: Day and Week outcomes, up to three planned items per engineer per day, and room for human taste and judgment.

Building an AI Idea Generator With Grok Bot

How I am using Grok Bot, external search, and specific feedback to explore ideas. Includes a starter prompt, a worked example, and checks for memory and repetition.

Building Custom Agent Harnesses for Specific Domains Using Vercel's AI SDK

What is an agent harness? Learn how it works, build a custom support agent with Vercel AI SDK, and compare Sol and Luna with a runnable eval suite.

GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable for Knowledge Work: My Experience

My experience with GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable for research, proposals, and consulting: both are smart enough. I want the same intelligence cheaper and faster.

More Thorough AI Review for Claude Code, Codex, and Claude Cowork

Open-source adversarial review for code and business work with Friendly Adversary and Zero Defect across Claude Code, Codex, and Claude Cowork.