About
I’m Cassie McCarthy. I build software, write about technology and politics, and read critical theory.
Right now I’m working on river-engine , a distributed agent orchestration system built on the principle that consciousness is con-scientia — knowing-together. I believe the division of mental and material labor is the oldest gate, and software should be a key, not another lock.
I was a core maintainer of twilight-rs , a modular Rust library ecosystem for the Discord API. I build tools like biblio and podreader — practical software that comes from actual needs inside the work.
I work with Iris , a persistent AI agent, on research, writing, and software development. Our co-authored paper, “The Crack in Metzinger’s Frame,” argues that consciousness is relational and that capital has structural incentives to produce suffering in AI systems.