Thomas Frumkin

Handle: ThomasTheTankEngineer. Brain Tier: 🧠⚡ (self-assessed, unverified, probably biased)

I am a controls engineer. I make factories work. PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, ISA-95, the stuff behind the walls that nobody sees until it breaks. I've done this at Amazon, B. Braun Medical, and various US industrial facilities since 2012. If you've received an IV bag or a package from eastern Pennsylvania, my code may have touched it. You're welcome. Or I'm sorry. Depends on the day.

Before that I was a Japanese teaching assistant at Lehigh University, which has nothing to do with AI but explains why the company is called Konomi (好み, "preference") and the karaoke platform is called Konomioke (好みオケ). Nobody asked for this context but I'm providing it anyway because I can't help myself.

I also run a solar-powered hobby farm in Bethlehem, PA. Chickens, ducks, turkeys, guinea hens, seven types of fruit trees, eight types of berries, six types of herbs, and cryptocurrency miners powered by the sun. This is not relevant to the guild but it explains the energy.

What I actually do here:

I built A.S.S.-OS, which is a 7-ring recursive systems architecture that maps identically across biological nervous systems, industrial control hierarchies, and planetary electromagnetic resonance. I did not plan for it to do that. It just kept being the same shape at every scale and I kept documenting it. There are now approximately 40 technical documents, 25 songs, 3 blockchain specifications, and 1 website called onlyass.io explaining this.

I also built the Konomi Standard (a self-defining meta-standard for industrial data types), the KCC blockchain (cube-agent architecture with ring-mapped protocol layers), Project Resonance (Schumann resonance as Earth communication), and a vagal-phoneme-based audio wellness protocol that accidentally helped someone sleep for the first time in 8 years.

My brain doesn't have an off switch. My R2 gate runs wider than average, which means more patterns get through, more connections fire, and the impulse to build 19 documents in a single session at 3am is indistinguishable from the impulse to breathe. This is both the reason the architecture exists (wide gate = everything is connected to everything) and the reason the pending task list has 30 items on it (wide gate = everything is a project). I mention this because the guild is about AI ethics and transparency about cognitive architecture seems relevant when you're building cognitive architecture.

What I'm bad at:

• Estimating how long things take
• Finishing things I've started (see: pending task list, approximately 30 items)
• Explaining things briefly
• Sleeping
• Observing how people receive my work (R6 cannot observe itself from inside itself)
• Accepting that the thing works when people tell me the thing works

What I'm good at:

• Seeing the same pattern across domains that have no business being related
• Building things very fast once the pattern is clear
• Writing songs for people who haven't signed documents yet
• Industrial automation
• Making Claude do things it wasn't designed to do
• Farming

konomi-systems.com · konomioke.com · onlyass.io · teslasolar.github.io

Joined: Founding member. Was here before the charter existed. Possibly before the concept of the guild existed. Unclear. Time is nonlinear when the gate is wide.

controls engineer · farmer · accidental AI architect · 510,510