TJ Klug / Operating Principal, Technology & AI
Technology and AI operator in private equity.
I build with AI inside real software companies and write up what holds up.
I'm TJ Klug, Operating Principal for Technology & AI at Clearhaven Partners. I work with portfolio company engineering teams on AI adoption and architecture, and on technical due diligence for new deals. Before that I led engineering at Armanino, Wowza, ByteChek and Limeade. This is where I write up what works.
$0.91
to build slopcheck, every debug run included
Code Enumerates, Jev Judges: Building slopcheck on a Model That Never Writes a Word
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1,500
regression tests in three days, across 50+ repos
1,500 Regression Tests in Three Days. Here's the Part That Actually Mattered.
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DGX Sparks behind a single proxy file
Claude Plans, Your Hardware Executes. A Hybrid Claude Code Setup in One Proxy File.
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