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Notes from the day job and the off-hours. AI systems that have to survive contact with production, the data platforms underneath them, the hardware humming under the desk, and thoughts about things with no API at all.

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Latest · AI Engineering

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Steering Claude Code's tone with a custom output style, without hurting the code it writes.

Jul 1, 2026·3 min read Read the latest →

AI Engineering

Evals are just unit tests that hurt your feelings

A working harness for catching the moment your model gets worse, before the customer does.

May 18, 2026 1 min read →

Data Platforms

A data platform is a promise you keep at 3am

Every tool choice is downstream of one question. Does the number mean what someone thinks it means?

Apr 9, 2026 1 min read →

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