The Story
From a goat farmer's experiment to a jQuery veteran's evolution.
The people behind the tools.
RALPH is born
The bash loop that started it all
AI coding explodes
VentureBeat coverage, massive adoption
WRECKIT launches
“Ralph with guardrails”
Geoffrey Huntley
Creator of RALPH
Geoffrey is a goat farmer turned open source maintainer who stumbled onto something big. His simple bash loop technique—letting Claude run unsupervised in a loop—became the foundation of a movement.
What started as an experiment became a $50K contract completed for $297. Then another. Then VentureBeat wrote about it. The technique spread through the developer community like wildfire.
“It's deterministically bad, but it works. Let the AI fail fast and iterate.”
Mike Hostetler
Creator of WRECKIT
Mike is a jQuery core team veteran who saw RALPH's potential—and its limitations. With decades of experience building developer tools, he knew that production use needed structure.
WRECKIT was born: the same autonomous AI loop philosophy, but with state management, human review gates, and crash recovery. Ralph with adult supervision.
“Even Ralph needs adult supervision. That's the insight that makes WRECKIT work.”