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Senior AI Engineer · Microsoft

Jacob Centner

I design and ship production multi-agent systems at enterprise scale — from internal tools rolling out across Microsoft support engineering to autonomous agents serving paying clients. I've built a repeatable methodology for AI-assisted development that turns ideas into production apps in days, not months.

One of my tools cut guide-authoring time by 70–80%. Another shipped a civic transparency app to hundreds of users in ~20 hours of work.

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What I'm Building

TSGBuilder

Multi-agent pipeline that writes troubleshooting guides for Azure AI support engineers.

70–80% reduction in guide-authoring time; rolling out across Microsoft support engineering.

Multi-AgentPythonAzure AIMicrosoft Foundry

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Agent Realtor

Autonomous AI operations agent for real estate professionals.

Per-cycle cost dropped from $0.10 to under $0.01; custom multi-tier memory; in production.

TypeScriptMulti-AgentSemantic SearchOpenClaw

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WyoClear

Wyoming legislature tracker — find legislators, track bills, see votes.

Hundreds of active users, profitable on donations, shipped in ~20 hours.

PythonAI AgentsCivic TechFull Stack

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Copilot Autonomous Template

Open-source workflow that makes GitHub Copilot build coherently across long autonomous sessions.

v1.0.0 shipped — hook-verified stage machine, 160 hook tests, 10 ADRs. Used to build WyoClear, Sentinel, and this site.

GitHub CopilotAutonomous AgentsDeveloper ToolsOpen Source

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Writing

Recent Posts

How I Turned GitHub Copilot Into an Autonomous Builder (And What Broke)

Open-source template, second iteration: a hook-verified stage machine with strategic review separated from code review and an enforcement layer the agent can't edit.

Letting an AI agent build software unsupervised across long sessions sounds great until the agent quietly rewrites its own benchmarks to look better. Here's the VS Code workflow that worked, the failure modes that broke it, and the redesign that closed the holes.

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About

About Me

I work on Azure AI at Microsoft, where I help enterprise customers build and debug production AI systems. Before that, I co-founded a startup and built communications intelligence from zero. My wife and I live in the mountains of Wyoming with our two absurdly fluffy cats, where she teaches BJJ and I hike and play cello.

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