Notes
Short and occasional. I write one when I have measured something or decided something and want to keep the reasoning.
- Python notebooks for a kid who loves football · A simpler Big Data Bowl for a ten-year-old, in Google Colab.
- An evening of AI, on vacation · Psychologists, entrepreneurs, auditors, and the basics of which tool does what.
- Shaping the build · On Andrew Ng's fourth skills-map letter, and what AI changes about the job.
- I tried the course's code graph on my own backend · Building Adaptive AI Agents, tested on two old bugs, with the token counts.
- DevFest DC, my first time as a speaker · What the talk was about, who came up afterwards, and the photo I did not take.
- Speaking at DevFest DC 2026 · The announcement, with what the session covers.
- I handed my pet project to a team of AI agents · What surprised me when agents ran the company, and the part that was unsettling.
- The grocery list that fills itself · My first everyday AI automation, and why the plumbing was the interesting part.
- I've never really been a fan of chat interfaces · Why chats feel temporary, and what CopilotKit does differently.
- How I write a prompt, on a walk · A conversation first, then the prompts, then the desk.
- Spec-driven development, yes, but · Where clear specs help, and where keeping them in sync costs more than it saves.
- One hour of vibe-coding with my son · He had his own sports app by the end of it. ScoreZone.
- Third in the freestyle track · The capstone placed among thousands of entries. A New Year's surprise.
- I submitted my capstone, Storyland AI · Google's 5-Day AI Agents Intensive, a Thanksgiving week, and an idea I had kept for a while.