From ETL Analytics to AI Tools

From ETL Analytics to AI Tools

Screenshot 2026-06-08 at 8.11.03 PM Tyler Garrett ·
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Extract transform and load, that was the gist of my experience after college. A lot of ETL; code based or software. The software was outrageously expensive. Today, I simply give away ETL software for free. ET1 by DEV3LOP for example, available for anyone to use, and even comes with a nice desktop app. However I've noticed after building this software my mind twisted a different direction. What about AI tools. I created the first gui for ai agent builders, and then larger companies followed suit. Almost like they noticed my traffic and ate my lunch very fast. That got me thinking, what can I do they can't do?

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I will make their models cost less in my software, using technology I build, and cheapen the cost for the users to do code editing with frontier models. Something a lot of code editing software want to hide, keep in the weeds, I want to bring to life. Here's how. First I create an ecosystem that enables less work, I enforce less "ghosting scripts" and enforce usage of of cached assets. I manage hygiene, and I also manage the directness. This turns out to be a powerful combo. Now that I have the wheel, the harness, I want to give people the gui. The gui is coming shortly. I'm stoked. Keep the stoke high! Solo dev. What diagram below fails to get right is we aren't fly wheeling back to frontier models, we fly wheel back to open source LLM creation. So you can build your own LLM out of your edits.

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Last but not least, the edits remain local, and keep the solutions for training data. Other apps do offer this but not as robust, hidden for non-technical people because their vision isn't giving you the best training data to SFT your own LLMs. Instead they are by default signing you up for phone home to train their models. My goal is different, I want your data to be your data, your models to be your models, and it's already come to life. Now, it's more about debugging the last few pieces, perhaps convincing some old college buddies to join the fight. Interested to learn more, please feel free to contact me.


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