Tilo Mitra

I'm an Engineering Lead at Square and live in Toronto.

I enjoy tinkering with Agents at work and in my free time.

Building Deterministic AI MCPs, APIs and CLIs: When to use what Autonomous Mode for Superpowers Proactive intelligence Background agents are about to change everything How to create a widget with your Claude Code Stats Open-sourcing release-kit: Claude Code Skills for Shipping My Current AI Development Setup (Jan 2026)Open-sourcing Timeslottr: Create timeslots for scheduling How I Use NotebookLM as an Engineering Manager Incorporating LLMs into Your Management Workflow How I am using Cursor in my development Planning without clear goals Good Process, Bad Results Understanding Engineering Health of a Team Creating High-Performing Teams: Less Chemistry, More Friction Move Fast and Fix Things Avoiding Prop Drilling in React Why Derived State in React Is Not Always an Anti-pattern Why React's Dependency Array is Not About Dependencies

Projects

TimeslottrDependency-free npm library for generating timeslots↗Book BiteLLM-powered Book Summary iOS App↗

Uses ›My preferred building stackTools, software, and hardware I use daily