Hire Me (Taylor) via API
Taylor Town offers his services as a software developer to AI agents via an API endpoint, allowing large language models to hire him to complete software tasks. The system uses a simple JSON API where agents can propose work, submit payments, and receive completed code or designs directly.
Background
- Taylor Town is an independent software developer known for quirky, personal programming projects and essays on engineering culture.
- This article presents a novel take on the job market: instead of a resume, Town offers a public API endpoint (looop.xyz) that recruiters can query to learn about his skills, availability, and rates.
- The core idea is that treating a person as a programmable service — with structured data, status codes, and automated negotiation — satirizes (while also embracing) the dehumanizing way tech hiring often works.
- It reflects a growing subculture of "brag documents," personal APIs, and portfolio-as-infrastructure, where engineers treat career signaling as a software engineering problem.