About
I'm Clay Loveless — software architect and developer tools builder. I've been shipping code for the web since the late '90s.
I co-founded Mashery in 2006 and helped create the API management category. Intel acquired us in 2013. That was a different era — but the instinct to build infrastructure that makes other people's work easier hasn't changed.
These days I build developer tools in Rust, design skills and frameworks for agentic coding workflows, and teach middle school students to code. The consulting never fully stops — but the product itch is back.
This site is the workbench — rough cuts, notes, works in progress. The polished stuff lives at Loveless Labs .
Currently building
- claylo-rs — Rust project scaffolding that doesn't abandon you after
init - building-in-the-open — Claude Code plugin for documentation discipline: composable personas, quality gates, and a tone firewall for agentic workflows
- bito-lint — Rust CLI that enforces token budgets and readability scores on documents — deterministic measurement, not vibes
- Kravitz — agent observability plugin that captures tool failures and builds a learning flywheel
"He's still building. That's the testimonial."