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[[File:Jesse Vincent -.jpg|thumb|Vincent in 2022]] |
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”’Jesse Vincent”’ (born June 21, 1976) is a [[computer programmer]] and [[entrepreneur]], best known for his work with the [[Perl|Perl programming language]]. He created the [[Ticket tracking|ticket-tracking]] system [[Request Tracker]] (“RT”) and founded the company [[Best Practical Solutions]]. |
”’Jesse Vincent”’ (born June 21, 1976) is a [[computer programmer]] and [[entrepreneur]], best known for his work with the [[Perl|Perl programming language]]. He created the [[Ticket tracking|ticket-tracking]] system [[Request Tracker]] (“RT”) and founded the company [[Best Practical Solutions]]. |
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In 2021, he co-founded [[VaccinateCA]], a community-run website for helping Americans find COVID vaccines. |
In 2021, he co-founded [[VaccinateCA]], a community-run website for helping Americans find COVID vaccines. |
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In the mid-2020s, Vincent expanded his focus to include artificial intelligence and AI-assisted software development. In 2025, he published a series of posts on his blog describing a multi-agent workflow for software development with coding assistants (notably Anthropic’s Claude Code). He outlined an “Architect/Implementer” pattern for running parallel agents and released accompanying reusable “SKILL.md” prompts.^[{{cite web |last=Vincent |first=Jesse |title=How I’m using coding agents in September, 2025 |url=https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/how-im-using-coding-agents-in-september-2025/ |date=5 October 2025 |website=Massively Parallel Procrastination}}; {{cite web |last=Vincent |first=Jesse |title=Superpowers: How I’m using coding agents in October 2025 |url=https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/ |date=9 October 2025 |website=Massively Parallel Procrastination}}; {{cite web |last=Vincent |first=Jesse |title=Skills for Claude! |url=https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/16/skills-for-claude/ |date=16 October 2025 |website=Massively Parallel Procrastination}}] The work drew attention from software-engineering commentators, including coverage and summary by technologist Simon Willison.^[{{cite web |last=Willison |first=Simon |title=Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle |url=https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/5/parallel-coding-agents/ |date=5 October 2025 |website=Simon Willison’s Weblog}}] |
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Latest revision as of 18:57, 24 October 2025
Businessperson and computer programmer
Jesse Vincent (born June 21, 1976) is a computer programmer and entrepreneur, best known for his work with the Perl programming language. He created the ticket-tracking system Request Tracker (“RT”) and founded the company Best Practical Solutions.
He created RT while working at Wesleyan University in 1994. Graduating from the university in 1998,[1] Vincent founded Best Practical in 2001.[2] He co-authored RT Essentials in 2005.[3]
He is the founder and former project lead of K-9 Mail email app for Android (since acquired by Mozilla and rebranded as Thunderbird for Android).[4]
In 2012 he became interested in the ergonomics of keyboards, having designed and built himself several designs.[5] In 2014 he co-founded Keyboardio.
In 2021, he co-founded VaccinateCA, a community-run website for helping Americans find COVID vaccines.
In the mid-2020s, Vincent expanded his focus to include artificial intelligence and AI-assisted software development. In 2025, he published a series of posts on his blog describing a multi-agent workflow for software development with coding assistants (notably Anthropic’s Claude Code). He outlined an “Architect/Implementer” pattern for running parallel agents and released accompanying reusable “SKILL.md” prompts.^[Vincent, Jesse (5 October 2025). “How I’m using coding agents in September, 2025”. Massively Parallel Procrastination.; Vincent, Jesse (9 October 2025). “Superpowers: How I’m using coding agents in October 2025”. Massively Parallel Procrastination.; Vincent, Jesse (16 October 2025). “Skills for Claude!”. Massively Parallel Procrastination.] The work drew attention from software-engineering commentators, including coverage and summary by technologist Simon Willison.^[Willison, Simon (5 October 2025). “Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle”. Simon Willison’s Weblog.]
From 2005 to 2008 he served as the project manager for Perl 6. He was the keeper of the pumpkin[6] for Perl versions 5.12 and 5.14. He changed the release cycle for Perl 5 from an irregular release done at the leisure of the project manager to a regular timeboxed release with development releases monthly and stable releases annually.[7]
- ^ Russian/Study abroad, Wesleyan.edu. Jesse Vincent ’98, last entry on page. Retrieved on 29 March 2012.
- ^ “Speaker: Jesse Vincent: Android Open – O’Reilly Conferences, October 09 – 11, 2011, San Francisco”. androidopen.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ Vincent, Jesse; Spier, Robert; Rolsky, Dave; Chamberlain, Darren; Foley, Richard (2005-08-18). RT Essentials: Jesse Vincent, Robert Spier, Dave Rolsky, Darren Chamberlain, Richard Foley: 9780596006686: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN 978-0596006686.
- ^ “Team”. Archived from the original on 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- ^ “Better and better keyboards”. fsck.com. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ^ “Perl version 5.18.2 documentation” (PDF). Retrieved 17 November 2024.
- ^ “The Great Pumpkin – Jesse Vincent – org.perl.perl5-porters – MarkMail”. markmail.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
