# Thierry Damiba

> Personal site of Thierry Damiba, Developer Evangelist at Arcade (arcade.dev). He runs Damiba, an experimental design maison, and Brise de Mer, an applied research lab. He works on tools for delegated thought: how people hand intellectual work to agents, and what understanding comes back. Lives in San Francisco. Born in Togo, from Burkina Faso, raised in Ivory Coast and then Baltimore. Previously Qdrant and DHS.

Every page below is plain HTML. The homepage is an illustrated room; each object in it links to one of these pages.

## Writing

- [The Problem Is Not Delegation](https://thierrydamiba.com/thesis): The central question is not whether to delegate. It is how delegation accumulates debt.
- [Beauty Has a Supply Chain](https://thierrydamiba.com/supply-chain): Behind every visible masterpiece is an invisible network of people, materials, markets, and accidents. On Monet and Venice at the de Young Museum.
- [Matisse From Across the Room](https://thierrydamiba.com/matisse): Monet gets better the closer you get. Matisse gets better the farther away. On Matisse's Femme au chapeau at SFMOMA.
- [Building Better LLM Benchmarks](https://thierrydamiba.com/benchmarks): NBA stats, Balatro, and the cost of curiosity. Eight iterations of benchmark design, from kitchen sink to meaningful model separation.
- [All writing](https://thierrydamiba.com/writing): Writing on aesthetics, delegated thought, agents, retrieval, and benchmarks.

## Papers

- [Tool Recommendation for Multi-Step Agents: Finding Every Tool a Task Needs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23707): Co-authored with Partee, Stevens, and Fanelle at Arcade, 2026.

## Site

- [About](https://thierrydamiba.com/about): Who he is, past work, and how to reach him.
- [Now](https://thierrydamiba.com/now): What he is doing now.
- [Damiba](https://thierrydamiba.com/damiba): Damiba, an experimental design maison, and Brise de Mer, an applied research lab. One house, many works.
- [Exhibition reviews](https://thierrydamiba.com/reviews): The full list of exhibition reviews, rated on a 7-point scale, with a map.
- [Streams and talks](https://thierrydamiba.com/streams): Talks, streams, and live sessions on agents, retrieval, and benchmarks, with a dated list of talks.

## Optional

- [GitHub](https://github.com/thierrypdamiba)