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Jakub Ćwirlej

Journalist who builds with AI

20 years in the media · own language model, EUGEN 160M

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I build AI-based tools and applications, from concept and architecture to the way the results are checked. I do not write code by hand: I define the tasks, run teams of AI agents and answer for the quality of the outcome, which I confirm with tests and measurements.

I am training my own language model for code, EUGEN 160M, from scratch, and I handle every stage: data preparation, architecture, a custom compute kernel (for sparse model variants), training stabilisation and evaluation. The model runs behind a public API that completes code and translates it from Python to C++ and Rust, verifying the result. I deploy my applications on Google Cloud.

Twenty years in the media taught me the rule that matters most when working with AI: an unverified result is not a result.

Experience

  • since 2026

    Co-founderOrsonAI

    • I design and develop AI tools for journalists: an editor with an assistant for research, verification, interview transcription and document analysis, and Orson Rec, an app that transcribes interviews as they are recorded.

  • App developerViaSanto

    • A prayer app: an interactive rosary, novenas and a community praying for shared intentions. I lead it end to end, from concept and user interviews to release on the App Store and Google Play.

  • 2005–2026

    Reporter, camera operator and video editorTelewizja Polska (TVP)

    • 2024–2026Reporterzy, a programme broadcast on TVP1
    • 2020–2023Magazyn Ekspresu Reporterów
    • 2019–2023Alarm!, a reportage programme broadcast on TVP1
    • 2011–2018Telekurier, a reportage programme broadcast on TVP Info
    • Reports and documentary pieces for current-affairs programmes, from research to editing.

Projects

  • EUGEN 160M: my own language model for code, trained from scratch.
  • OrsonAI: an editor for newsrooms with an AI assistant, on Google Cloud (Gemini, RAG).
  • This site's AI agent: answers questions about my work; it has a public API and its own gateway to the models.
  • Open-source tools: HDK, a Triton kernel, TetherGate.

How I work with AI

I design the tasks and run teams of AI agents in three stages: research, execution checked by two independent controllers, and verification. A test or a measurement decides whether the work is done, not the model's own claim.

How I work with AI, in full