Mark Agate

Flight controls and autonomy, proven in the field.

I help move aircraft and autonomy work from simulation, bench test, and analysis into real flight programs.

That means control laws, instrumentation, verification plans, flight-test discipline, and the judgment to know what the data is actually saying.

Featured milestone

Skyways long-range offshore cargo drop

A public milestone from an aircraft program where test planning, controls, operations, and execution all had to line up.

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Skyways Logistics aircraft in flight

Work

Core work

Flight controls

Control system design, implementation support, instrumentation, and verification for novel aircraft.

Autonomy validation

Test plans and analysis that show whether autonomous behavior holds up outside nominal cases.

Engineering systems

Automation, evaluation harnesses, and documentation systems that make fast work easier to trust.

Projects

Selected public work

Writing

Current essay

ChatGPT Voice Is the Future of Work for the Next 6 Months

ChatGPT Voice is easily the future of work for the next 6 months. I’m able to type about 98 WPM on my MacBook Air with no warm up and usually break 110 when on my mechanical keyboard. The input from my brain to the model does not seem to significantly speed up when using ChatGPT voice unless I am rambling a large project that will need several different features developed.

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