Tyler Collins
Research computing consultant, Canada
I help researchers turn computational problems into reliable software and workflows: HPC systems, Python tooling, EEG/MEG pipelines, getting more out of the hardware you already have, and helping scientific teams use AI coding agents well.
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Clean-Room Rewrites for Researchers
Tools like REA let a coding agent take closed software apart. Escaping research lock-in is one of the best uses for them, as long as you stay in your lane.
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Writing an AGENTS.md for a national cluster
What I learned putting an AGENTS.md into the Alliance software stack: skip what frontier models already know and spend the lines on site policy and when to stop and ask.
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Your LLM Loop Is a Batch Job
800,000 small requests in a day slows a shared LLM service down for everyone. If your workload looks like that, a batch job on a GPU node will finish sooner.
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Start your five-hour window early
How Claude and Codex five-hour and weekly limits reset, and why an early-morning ping can get you a fresh window by lunch.
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Tectonic makes LaTeX easier to work on with an agent
Using Tectonic and a coding agent to edit LaTeX, compile a résumé, and check the rendered PDF without browser automation.