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Case Studies & Writing

Projects that shipped to production and thoughts on building AI systems.

Articles

AI Strategy Leadership

Your AI Strategy Is Collecting Dust

Most AI strategies fail before implementation starts. Not because the ideas are wrong - because the strategy was built for a board deck, not for the people doing the work. Here's how to build one that actually gets executed.

11 min read
AI Productivity Leadership

AI Brain Fry Is Real - But It's Not the Tools' Fault

Harvard Business Review says AI is frying workers' brains. My data - 1,986 commits and 1,900 AI sessions in 76 days - shows the opposite is possible. The difference isn't the tools. It's whether anyone invested in actually understanding them.

9 min read
AI Productivity Delegation

Your agents know exactly what you tell them

Most people's AI instructions are empty or stale. The ones getting consistently better results are transferring judgment, not just preferences - and they have a system for keeping it current.

7 min read
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Meta Prompting: Let AI Write Your Prompts

The most underused technique in AI: using the model to improve your inputs. How to generate, critique, and refine prompts using the AI itself.

6 min read
AI Agents Architecture

What Are AI Agents, Actually?

An agent is a system where the model decides the next step. That's it. Most things called 'agents' aren't - they're workflows with LLM-powered steps, which is usually the right architecture anyway. Understanding the actual distinction helps you buy smarter and build better.

9 min read
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What Are LLMs, Actually?

Large Language Models explained without hype or jargon. The 4,096-dimensional mental model that explains hallucination, context windows, and how to use them well.

10 min read
Personal Career AI

How I Learned to Build

From port forwarding at eight years old to building AI systems for pharma - a twenty-year journey of refusing to accept limitations.

12 min read
AI Automation Architecture

What Are Workflows and Agents

The distinction that matters is simpler than the terminology suggests. In a workflow, you define what happens. In an agent, the model defines what happens. Understanding when to use each - and how to combine them - is most of what separates successful AI implementations from expensive experiments.

9 min read