Writing
Notes on building, and on the water.
Short pieces, one idea each. Some about tech, some about life. Filter below.
Build the demo before you have the keys
A demo that needs a live API key is a demo that will eventually break in front of the wrong person.
An LLM judge needs a chaperone
Asking a model 'is this good?' and trusting the answer is how you ship noise. Pair it with checks it can't fake.
For agents, the safety is the product
Approval gates, audit trails, and rollback aren't friction on top of an agent. For most buyers they're the thing being bought.
Confidence comes before skill, not after
Teaching kids to swim taught me the order is backwards from what most people assume.
I started with code, I stayed for building
Engineering was the door, not the room.
Guiding people through fear, not forcing them
What teaching swimming taught me about leading people.