Nyghtowl

I'm Melanie. Software engineer in AI, co-founder of Fight Health Insurance, and DevRel at Temporal.

I build things, break things, fix things.

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A few things I've been working on

From the workbench.

Guide · AI models

From fine-tuning to production

Eight posts on deciding whether to fine-tune, getting the hardware to cooperate, evaluating the result, and shipping it.

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Demos · Temporal

Agents that can pick up again

I build and demo agents with durable execution: what survives a crash, where the work stands, and how it continues.

Explore the demos

Co-founder · Fight Health Insurance

Helping people appeal denials

I co-founded Fight Health Insurance with Holden Karau to help people use AI to draft health insurance appeals.

About the project

Research · AI evals

Evaluating 28 models on appeal letters

I ran 28 models through 632 appeal letters each and five judges to pick what Fight Health Insurance runs now, and tracked what it all cost.

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Launch · Fight Health Insurance

Your AI can talk to our AI

I launched the Fight Health Insurance MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant can look up appeal rights and state help, and start a free appeal from the chat.

Connect your assistant

Video series · Temporal

Temporal & AI

My video series on building AI agents with Temporal. The latest episode puts Claude Code behind an agent gateway built on Temporal Nexus.

Watch the series

Code, conversations, and the occasional underwater detour.