Pablo De Lucca is a designer, engineer, and product leader who created Pixel Agents, a visual interface for coding-agent activity. His work combines product discovery, interface design, and AI systems, with earlier experience in educational software, computer vision, and startup products.[1][2][3]
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Career
De Lucca’s CV records UI leadership at Labster, AI and machine-learning research at KU Leuven, and a maritime-safety engineering role at Westray. It later lists co-founding DidactLabs, a writing platform that gives teachers visibility into students’ process, and product management and frontend leadership at Surus, an AI infrastructure provider. His education includes a Bachelor of Engineering at ITBA and an MSc in Electromechanical Engineering Technology at KU Leuven. The CV explicitly says he graduated first in the MSc class.[1][2]
Contributions
Pixel Agents turns coding-agent terminals into animated characters in a small office. Characters change behavior when an agent writes files, reads, runs commands, or waits for input. The project ships as a VS Code extension and a standalone browser interface. Its current reference integration is Claude Code; support for other coding agents is a roadmap item rather than an already verified integration. A provider interface separates the visual office from each tool’s activity source.[4]
Ideas
The office metaphor makes it easier to notice concurrent activity and requests for attention. A character typing represents observed agent activity, not proof that its code is correct. The layout editor and persistent office arrangement let a user organize the display around their own workspaces. This makes the project a concrete example of De Lucca’s combined design and engineering practice: software state becomes an interface that can be understood at a glance.[3][4]
Tools, writing & talks
Tools
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Pixel Agents
github.comAn animated office that visualizes coding-agent activity and requests for input in VS Code or a browser.
Watch one agent perform a small task and compare its terminal with the character’s activity. You need a compatible coding agent, but no game-development knowledge.
- Pixel Agents
github.comVS Code extension rendering AI agents as animated pixel art characters whose actions mirror what each agent is doing.
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