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