Calvin Laughlin overlooking a mountain lake after a storm

Calvin Laughlin

| software engineer

agents | creative tools | interactive systems

currently

Software Engineer at Luma Labs, teaching AI agents how to make movies

Previously Context AI

BS + MS in CS from Stanford

selected work

music2dance — a music-driven audiovisual performance

perch — a small macOS notch app

large language lego models — generating building instructions with fine-tuned language models

wekinators — playful machine-learning instruments

cal-train — an explorable Caltrain station website

experiments

write or else | sprite world

writing

humans in the loop — designing AI that extends people

ai & music — what creative tools should preserve

community

children’s hospital los angeles — longtime volunteer supporting its annual Giving Tuesday campaign, now over $4M raised since 2016

San Francisco, California
making human things with computers