Notes from the work
Field notes on applied AI, multi-agent systems, software architecture, and how engineering teams work with the tools they now depend on.
I Replaced Alexa With a Fully Local AI Assistant — Here's What Actually Happened
How a weekend experiment turned into a 30-service local AI system that runs entirely in my home — faster, smarter, and with zero cloud dependencies.
AIMore writing
AI Writes My Code. It Also Breaks It. So I Built This.
Building a self-hosted visual regression platform to catch UI breakage that AI-written code introduces and unit tests miss.
Read on MediumWe're Shipping Code We Don't Understand — And Calling It Progress
AI isn't just helping us write code. It's changing our relationship to understanding it.
SoftwareMob Programming, Eight Years Later — And Why AI Might Make It Even Better
Looking back on introducing mob programming to my team, what made it work, and why AI tools might give it a second life.
TeamsAI Agents Have Write Access to My Code — Here's How I Sleep at Night
How I built a four-layer infrastructure to make AI agent destruction recoverable by design.
DevOpsThe AI Speed Trap — And How I'm Building My Way Out
AI coding tools make it easy to build systems nobody fully understands. Here's the six-phase engineering loop I use to keep speed without losing discipline.
ProcessThe practices this writing draws on.
Three services, each with its own page.
Generative AI & LLM Implementation
Prompt design, RAG pipelines, evaluations, and production deployment, with model selection across OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Gemini, and open-source options.
Generative AI & LLM consultingHealthcare Technology & HL7 FHIR
FHIR integration, benefits-processing systems, and PHI-handling architecture for healthcare and benefits-administration platforms.
Healthcare & FHIR consultingTechnical & AI Due Diligence
An independent read on architecture, security posture, team, and AI claims for investors, acquirers, and boards before capital moves.
AI & technical due diligence