Nicole Chaves

I'm an engineer. I spent twenty years shipping production software at Google, Apple, Snap, and Electronic Arts — and I'm now full-time on agentic AI engineering as a discipline, not a slot machine.

I design agent systems the way I developed engineering teams: calibrate trust, systematize the process, build exactly what's needed, make it hard to get it wrong. These days that means building Promptly and consulting on production AI systems.

This site is my notebook — mostly short pieces on how humans and AI actually work together.

SOME THINGS I'VE DONE

Career Twenty years of production engineering, from game backends to the ads platforms behind billions in revenue

Google
Apple
Snapchat
EA

OFF THE CLOCK

🏈 🏋️‍♀️ If it's a sport, I'll play it. Football is the main one — flag and tackle — and I play for the Utah Falconz in the Women's National Football Conference. Soccer and basketball are close behind, I've been lifting for four years, and I'm in the gym training for performance and speed constantly. I love anything athletic.

🇲🇽 🇵🇷 I'm Mexican, Puerto Rican, and American. At home I'm a mom of two and stepmom of three, and my girlfriend's name is Kerstin.

📸 🗺️ I take photos constantly when I travel, which is another thing I love. Most recently I've been to England, Scotland, France, Puerto Rico, Monaco, the Dominican Republic, and Ireland.