Writing
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Of octopi and hacked TVs
About a month ago, I gave an AI agent permission to try to break out of its security controls. A few of days ago, I discovered my Smart TV was hacked. Here is how it happened. How it started After attending the AI Engineer World's Fair and returning
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Building a Software Factory
My mornings start with three Linear views: Needs Merge, Needs Go, Needs Answer. If all three are empty, nothing needs me. In the first half of this week, 77 pull requests merged across four repos. As a software engineer who has been writing code since I was 12, with a
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Building a Local AI Stack
A two week deep dive into the models, software, and hardware that power a local AI setup for the whole family
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32 Random Things I've Built With AI
The more time I spend with LLMs, the more use cases I'm discovering. I find that people who are not quite there yet with AI are often not limited by their techniques, tooling, or skills, but by their imagination. The professional and organizational side of AI is my
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Twenty Years of Starting Over: Part 2
[Continued from Part 1] I started seriously looking around, talking with friends in other industries, dabbling in a variety of side hustles. I had lost the joy anyway, how could I possibly reinvest in relearning my entire discipline? And was it even worth it, won’t AI just take my
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Twenty Years of Starting Over: Part 1
"I don’t know if I can do it again." It was late 2024. A truly challenging year for me personally, and a disorienting one professionally. AI making increasingly pessimistic headlines around the only career I had known for over 18 years: technology. Hacker News, Reddit, Substack, X,