Jack Luo
Type: Self Last updated: 2026-04-06
Overview
Jack Luo (username: thejackluo) is a builder, writer, and student working at the intersection of AI agents, automation, and personal software.
He is the
founder of Agentdex and the operator of
Agent School. He describes himself as an “AI-centric
full-stack engineer based in the Bay Area, building agentic systems that
plan, communicate, and execute work with minimal human oversight.”
He has been maintaining a writing practice since at least 2021 — 360+ entries spanning deep personal reflection, technical essays, and annual reviews. The archive is the best record of who he is.
Biographical Facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Full name | Jack Luo |
| Chinese name | 罗唅章 (Luó Hán Zhāng) |
| Username | thejackluo |
| Current location | San Francisco Bay Area / Oakland, CA |
| jack@hexahacks.com | |
| GitHub | github.com/thejackluo |
| linkedin.com/in/thejackluo | |
| Website | jack-luo.com |
| @thejackluo | |
| Twitter/X | @thejackluo |
Education
Jack has been through multiple schools: - Previous college years, before the Georgia Tech Era transfer. - Georgia Tech — Computer Science, focus on AI and embedded systems. Transferred in 2024. The transfer itself was “biggest achievement of 2024” per his annual review. - MIT — Currently affiliated with MIT SIPB (Student Information Processing Board) on the Arc Project. LinkedIn lists MIT as current institution.
Career and Projects
AgentDex
Personal CRM and relationship intelligence platform — “the Rolodex for the AI age” (hence ROLO). Originally called MAGK during customer discovery. Went to production April 6, 2024. Stack: Next.js, Clerk auth, Coolify deployment on worker-vps-1 (agentdex.agentschool.io), Vercel for the Rolo variant (rolo.agentschool.io).
Agent School
Infrastructure and tooling for AI agents. Hosts the agentschool.io domain, Paperclip instance, Jackipedia.
HexaHacks
Earlier project / organization, still active. Jack’s email is jack@hexahacks.com. Kevin Zhang is CTO.
Delight / MAGK
Building “delight” — referenced on jack-luo.com as “next generation productivity software” — the same thread as AgentDex.
MIT SIPB Arc Project
Working on agentic architecture. GitHub: github.com/SGIARK/arkos.
Accomplishments
- Won Top 15 at Berkeley AI Hackathon (June 2024)
- Won 1st place at Digitalized and CodeDay SF
- Finalist at Penn’s pitch competition and Northwestern’s pitch competition
- Discussed AI with Elon Musk on Hack Club video calls (2 appearances, both on YouTube)
- Featured in Towards AI
news - Co-organized Q House (2023), New York Hacker House (2025), and
inspired the Georgia Tech Hacker House (2025) - Slept on a WeWork office
rooftop for a month - Attended NVIDIA conference; hosted a group trip to
Ces 2025 - TikTok viral: 2 million+ combined views - Growth
hacked 30x in Deso (crypto social platform) - Graduated from Buildspace
S4 (“nights and weekends”) - Surpassed 50 published blogs on Medium
Personality and Psychology
Jack is a highly ambitious, synthesis-oriented builder. His dominant traits: strong taste instincts, genuine founder energy, deep idea-orientation across product/philosophy/tech, and a recurring struggle between grounded execution and dramatic transcendence.
Key patterns documented in his writing: - Environment-as-destiny: the people around you are the decisive variable - Aspirational mismatch as loneliness: “I don’t aspire to be them” (2022) - Fear/perfectionism/isolation triangle — self-diagnosed in Nov 2025 - Japan and anime as recurring cultural anchors (Steins Gate, “Hacking to the Gate”) - Startup sacrifice as identity: rooftop, Chipotle, solitude
Japanese
Currently learning Japanese, self-rated between N3 and N4.
Outside Interests
- Electric unicycle riding
- Travel (visited almost all major US cities; Japan Dec 2024, targeting Shanghai/Tokyo/Osaka next)
- Reading (Understanding Deep Learning; full list in Reading List)
- Writing on Medium (50+ blogs published)
People Close to Jack
- Arman Mahjoor — Close friend and AgentDex collaborator
- Kevin Zhang — Co-founder of Mira, technical co-conspirator
- Jeff — College-era friend, psychology, Kansas
- Nimesh — Customer champion, hotel operator
- James Preiss — Robotics advisor
Writing
Jack’s writing archive spans 2021–2026. Published on multiple platforms:
- jack-luo.com/blogs — personal blog, 50+ posts. Key
entries:
- “MIT Blog” (jack-luo.com/blogs/mit) — written after his MIT rejection on Pi Day (March 14). Full essay on building a world-class education outside elite institutions: “drink from the right firehose,” surround yourself with great people, approach everything with IHTFP energy. One of his most personal public pieces.
- “Unconventional Education” — the framing that runs through his entire educational arc: UCSC → Georgia Tech → Boston → self-directed learning
- Medium (@thejackluo8) — 50+ articles including technical pieces on hierarchical memory and adaptive state management for AI agents
- Notion writing archive — 360+ private entries, 2021–2026
The best public pieces are documented in the Writing Archive section. Start with Walk In The Park for his core philosophy, or Annual Review 2024 for the most recent full-year reflection.
Sources
- jack-luo.com — personal website (live as of 2026-04-06)
- jack-luo.com/blogs/mit — full MIT rejection essay
- jack-luo.com/journey — creative projects: Limbinal (novel), SoundCloud music
- jack-luo.com/special/books — full bookshelf with ratings and progress
- Notion workspace: USER.md, meetings DB, CRM DB, writing archive
- LinkedIn (public profile)
- GitHub: github.com/thejackluo
- Conversations via Telegram (2026-03 to present)
Personal Artifacts
A custom-printed tote bag with Jack’s photo on it — spotted in a car. The kind of thing that exists because someone made it happen.
Jack and a friend at a Chinese BBQ restaurant — skewers on the table, neon sign visible through the wooden partition behind them. The casual version of the social life.
A modern hillside house in the Oakland/Berkeley hills — white concrete, multiple decks, wood-paneled upper story, blue sky. Jack’s home base area.
Travel Statistics
All-time Flighty stats as of early 2026: - 76 flights (15 long haul) - 120,963 miles — 4.9x around the world - 12 days 8 hours total flight time - 26 airports, 9 airlines - Most flown aircraft: A321neo (26 flights) - 30 hours lost to delays (averaged 56 min late per delayed flight)
Portrait: Neon Rain
One of the definitive Jack photos — crouching in a rain-soaked parking lot at night, pink and purple neon reflecting in the puddle beneath him, Patagonia puffer and backpack, BMW headlights in the background. Looks like a still from a cyberpunk film. The photo captures something real: the aesthetic of late-night city life that runs through his writing, his taste in music, and his vision of what a meaningful life looks like.
Portrait: Rooftop Meditation
Black jacket, lotus position, city lights blurred across the horizon. Taken on a snowy rooftop — likely Boston or New York during the nomadic period.
Revision history
| Date | Commit | Edit summary |
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| 2026-04-06 06:55:10 | 70ce2406 | build: auto-update 2026-04-06 06:55 UTC (113 pages) |
| 2026-04-06 06:43:54 | 5ebe9165 | build: auto-update 2026-04-06 06:43 UTC (112 pages) |
| 2026-04-06 06:35:51 | 09032d50 | build: auto-update 2026-04-06 06:35 UTC (109 pages) |
| 2026-04-06 06:16:09 | 1b094f72 | build: auto-update 2026-04-06 06:16 UTC (97 pages) |
| 2026-04-06 05:56:03 | 56e922e0 | build: auto-update 2026-04-06 05:56 UTC (84 pages) |
| 2026-04-06 05:51:54 | d57911d9 | build: auto-update 2026-04-06 05:51 UTC (83 pages) |
| 2026-04-06 05:45:43 | 83bb4f5c | build: auto-update 2026-04-06 05:45 UTC (83 pages) |
| 2026-04-06 05:25:30 | c64bc8d9 | feat: 14 new photos, EI concepts page, agent-school page, mit-era page |
| 2026-04-06 05:16:35 | 12c9d050 | photos: 5 personal photos added — flighty stats, noodles, neon sign, rain/catering tray, japan sweets; new travel page with full flight stats |
| 2026-04-06 05:14:13 | aa83b40e | images: profile photo, berkeley hackathon group, elon musk hackclub call; CSS image styles; auto-copy assets on build |
| 2026-04-06 04:57:17 | 7d18e507 | people: full section — jack-luo rewrite, arman mahjoor, kevin zhang, jeff, nimesh, james preiss, kunal gupta, hongyin, manas nair, karthik jandhyala, people index |
| 2026-04-06 03:47:54 | f1c764ed | init: jackipedia v1 — meetings, books, jack-luo profile |