Field notes, technical dispatches, and occasional philosophy.
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Nov 15
Back in the Trenches
→ Back in the Trenches, Part 1
On returning to hands-on engineering after years of leadership — and what I found when I got there.
Sep 03
Zen and the Art of Making Samogon
What distillation taught me about systems design, patience, and the irreducible complexity of transformation.
Jul 20
A Man Without a Built-In LLM
Notes on the experience of being the only person in the room who remembers when computers were wrong in more interesting ways.