Writing
Notes & essays.
Thoughts on AI, learning, leadership, and the craft of building things that matter.
AI Engineering
What I Wish I Knew Before Building My First RAG System
Five lessons from shipping retrieval-augmented systems to production — the kind that nobody tells you in tutorials.
03 May 2026 · 6 min read
Generative AI
The Quiet Death of "Just Use ChatGPT"
Why most production AI work is not about the model — and what actually moves the needle.
26 Apr 2026 · 7 min read
Generative AI
Agentic Systems: Hype vs. Reality
After building three production agentic systems, here is what works and what is still science fiction.
19 Apr 2026 · 8 min read
Career
How I Actually Mentor Junior Engineers
A concrete framework for technical mentorship that produces senior engineers, not dependent ones.
12 Apr 2026 · 9 min
Career
The Underrated Skill of AI Practitioners
It is not Python. It is not math. It is the ability to translate fuzzy business problems into …
29 Mar 2026 · 11 min