# Cole Medin

> Cole Medin is a Minneapolis-based software developer, founder of Dynamous, AI educator and creator of the open-source Archon project. His public teaching has moved from building individual AI agents toward designing repeatable coding workflows, with planning and validation at the center. In 2026 he began building an open-source AI software factory, testing how far that approach can go.

- **Role:** Founder of Dynamous
- **Organizations:** Dynamous, oTTomator
- **Education:** University of Minnesota
- **Known for:** Founded Dynamous and its AI Mastery community., Built and maintains the open-source Archon project, whose GitHub repository showed about 23,600 stars when checked in September 2026., Reported in 2025 that his YouTube channel grew from just over 500 to more than 155,000 subscribers in one year.

## Career timeline

- **2018-2021** — Attended the University of Minnesota, according to his LinkedIn profile.
- **2022** — Says he became heavily involved in generative AI around the release of GPT-3.5.
- **2024** — Began publishing AI agent tutorials on YouTube; in a 2025 talk, he said the channel had started a little over a year earlier.
- **2025** — Launched the Dynamous AI Mastery community and reported that his channel had grown from just over 500 to more than 155,000 subscribers in a year.
- **2025** — Presented his context-engineering and Plan-Implement-Validate approach at JSNation US.
- **2026** — Recast Archon as an open-source harness builder for AI coding and announced an open-source AI software factory experiment.

## Achievements

- Founded Dynamous and its AI Mastery community.
- Built and maintains the open-source Archon project, whose GitHub repository showed about 23,600 stars when checked in September 2026.
- Reported in 2025 that his YouTube channel grew from just over 500 to more than 155,000 subscribers in one year.
- Presented a context-engineering talk at JSNation US 2025 and was scheduled to teach at GOTO Copenhagen 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Announced an early open-source AI software factory and described a year-long experiment with an AI-built tutor app.
- **2026-09** — Scheduled to teach an agentic engineering masterclass at GOTO Copenhagen on September 29 and present a validation-first talk on October 2.
- **2026-06** — Published a guide describing the rewritten Archon as an open-source harness builder for AI coding.

## Links

- Website: https://dynamous.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-medin-727752184/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/cole_medin
- GitHub: https://github.com/coleam00
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ColeMedin
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cole_medin/

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Last updated: 2026-09-29