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I write here about engineering at scale, AI in production, and the parts everyone leaves out of the pitch deck. Twenty-five years of doing this and I’m still surprised at how often the interesting story is the one nobody mentions until two beers in.
Field notes most weeks; longer case studies when the work earns it.
All posts
- The Strangler Fig Pattern: Modernizing Without Ripping Out Jun 6, 2026
- Week Notes — June 4: Rebuilding the Fantasy Baseball AI Jun 4, 2026
- $830B in Fraud Prevented: Building Voice Biometric Auth at 10M Scale May 30, 2026
- How I Built an ML Model That Knows Its Own Limits May 23, 2026
- Week Notes — May 18: The Week the Toolkit Earned Its Keep May 18, 2026
- Five Systems I Shipped: A Production Case Study Catalog May 9, 2026
- 25 Years In, Here's What I Actually Know About Building Systems Apr 29, 2026
- What a Senior Engineer's Job Search Actually Looks Like in 2026 Apr 24, 2026
- The Agentic AI Hype Is Real. The Timelines Are Not. Apr 8, 2026
- I Ran the AI Curiosity Workshop at Vertex. Here's What I Learned. Mar 18, 2026
- Robby: I Built an AI System to Kill the Super Chicken Problem Feb 19, 2026
- Doc Intel: What Happens When Your Code and Docs Divorce Jan 28, 2026
- Mort AI Nexus: Predicting Economic Nexus Before It Bites You Jan 14, 2026
- How Data Cake Got Built: Inventing Synthetic Tax Data From Scratch Dec 11, 2025
- How I Built Decision Support for Audit Defense Oct 22, 2025