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Notes on engineering, AI, leadership, and building things that matter.
You Cannot Mandate Your Way to AI Adoption
Mandating AI tool usage, monitoring individual adoption, or ignoring it entirely. Three responses. All wrong. The AI adoption problem is a people problem, not a deployment problem.
The Gap Between Estimated and Delivered
The gap between estimate and delivery isn't an estimation problem. It's an organizational one.
The Engineering Manager Role Is Mutating
Same title, different job. The EM role is mutating faster than the job descriptions can keep up.
I Built a Game That Teaches Git by Making You Type Real Commands
Most git tutorials show you diagrams. Gitvana drops you in a terminal inside a pixel-art monastery and makes you earn your enlightenment one commit at a time.
The AI Echo Chamber Is the New Agile Industrial Complex
I've seen this movie before. A useful tool gets swallowed by a content machine, and the people who should be paying attention tune out. It happened with Agile. It's happening with AI.
How I Built a Real-Time Geopolitical Event Pipeline with Embeddings and LLMs
A deep technical walkthrough of a 7-stage pipeline that ingests 100+ RSS feeds, clusters articles with vector embeddings, synthesises structured events through multi-pass LLM processing, and serves them on a live dashboard with conflict tracking and automated alerting.
Building Global Crisis Monitor: A Real-Time Geopolitical Intelligence Dashboard
I built a system that ingests 80+ news feeds, clusters them with embeddings, synthesises events with AI, and surfaces a live map and briefings-plus auto-publishing to X and Threads.
I built the tool my public-speaking anxiety needed
A zero-friction teleprompter for talks and Zoom: no signup, no backend, with a compact mode that keeps you looking at the camera instead of the script.
How I Built My Perfect Family Budget App in Just 3 Days
Frustrated by budget apps that couldn't tell me where my money went, I built my own with Next.js and automation—and got real visibility in days.