# Cisco Caceres > Navy veteran. BBS sysop in the 80s. Two T1 lines to my house in the 90s. 30M concurrent connections. 8+ patents. I don't sell digital transformation. I sell reality checks. Cisco Caceres ## Key sections - **The Short Version** — I toggled my first program into an Altair via front-panel switches in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, I ran BBSs when "online" meant dialing in at 300 baud. - **Operating Principles** — Latency is determined by the speed of light. Costs are determined by supply and demand. No amount of "Agile" or "Vibe Coding" can negotiate with these realities. - **Notable Scars** — Built content management systems before "CMS" was a term. MSNBC's publishing platform in the mid-90s, when the web was still young and everything was being invented. - **Current Ventures** — Autonomous intelligence for life. AI agents managing time, wealth, and health — with Plaid-connected finances, 12 specialized agents, passkey-only security, and 50,893 pre-deploy checks. - **From the Field Manual** — The industry solved "big ball of mud" by creating a distributed big ball of mud. The complexity didn't disappear—it just got harder to debug. - **Currently Building** — Acoustic intelligence for high-noise environments. Building an ASR system that maintains 90-95% accuracy where commercial solutions fail at 14-40%. ## Canonical links - Home: https://ciscocaceres.com/ - Sitemap: https://ciscocaceres.com/sitemap.xml - security.txt: https://ciscocaceres.com/.well-known/security.txt Last reviewed: 2026-04-20