AI / ML Engineer · Physics PhD · Kraków

Local rules.
Emergent behaviour.

I’m Michał Maik — I build agentic AI systems for a living and adversarial things that confuse machines for fun.

Recovering physicist. I spent years studying how the universe behaves, then switched to making language models behave. Mostly the latter sticks.

01 Now

Currently leading a research team building agentic AI systems — orchestration, tool use, and the unglamorous engineering that makes autonomous agents actually reliable.

02 Selected work
03 Talks & writing
Data Science Summit
LLMs as game NPCsCharacter engineering & validator architectures · Warsaw
Digital Dragons
Language models behind the charactersBuilding believable NPCs with LLMs
GIC Poznań
AI in gamesPractical agentic systems for interactive worlds
04 About

I came to machine learning from physics — a PhD, then a detour through finance, then years leading R&D on LLM-powered systems. I like problems that sit at the seam between perception and computation: where a human and a model look at the same thing and disagree. I work in the open where I can, prefer local and on-device tools, and have a soft spot for synths and physics-flavoured wordplay.

05 Contact

Let’s
talk.

Open to interesting problems, collaborations, and arguments about whether hallucination is a feature.