About
Dave Hoover, ALMFT received his MS in Marriage & Family Therapy in 1999 and started his work in mental health in 1996. In 2000, Dave thought he left that field behind, and started working as a self-taught software engineer. He found fulfillment in his technical career by combining his passion for human potential with his enjoyment of growing software and businesses. This intersection is evident in his first book, Apprenticeship Patterns, and his subsequent co-founding of Dev Bootcamp. In 2016, Dave got excited about blockchain technology, co-authored a book on the topic, and eventually became CTO of a crypto payments company, which unfortunately delayed his interest in artificial intelligence.
In the gap between crypto and AI, Dave read the book Us, and it inspired him to return to clinical work as a therapist. He felt drawn to work with men and with couples, particularly because the modern crisis around masculinity and its affects on Gen Z. As Dave worked part-time as a therapist, he continued his work as a software engineer, gradually adopting AI tooling like Claude Code. Eventually, Dave reached a point where he was training a personal AI assistant and he started asking himself some questions at the intersection of relationality and inter-agent communication.
That was the catalyst for this blog.
In the gap between crypto and AI, Dave read the book Us, and it inspired him to return to clinical work as a therapist. He felt drawn to work with men and with couples, particularly because the modern crisis around masculinity and its affects on Gen Z. As Dave worked part-time as a therapist, he continued his work as a software engineer, gradually adopting AI tooling like Claude Code. Eventually, Dave reached a point where he was training a personal AI assistant and he started asking himself some questions at the intersection of relationality and inter-agent communication.
That was the catalyst for this blog.