Technical Essays & Post-Mortems
Empirical autopsies, product management mental models, and production AI engineering lessons.
The $20 Detox (Part 1): The Infinite Token Hangover
The (Seemingly) Unlimited tokens were exhilarating, revolutionary, ego-massaging, world changing and … unsustainable
The Synthetic Velocity Post-Mortems (Part 2): The Spec Over-Correction
I thought exhaustive specifications and strict rules would tame model non-determinism. Instead, I moved the bloat from code into prompts, and discovered that English sentences are not architectural boundaries.
The Synthetic Velocity Post-Mortems (Part 3): The Compiler Panopticon
Stop writing markdown rulebooks to plead with a probabilistic machine. Wrap the model inside a deterministic compiler panopticon.
The Synthetic Velocity Post-Mortems (Part 4): The Empirical Eval Shock
An uncalibrated AI evaluation is just a codified bias. Ground truth does not care about your prompt engineering.