Writing
I write when something took me a while to understand.
- 13 Jul 2026 Shipping facial recognition on $200 hardware draft The model was never the problem. The per-device budget was. 9 min
- 29 Jun 2026 What an AI agent actually is (and what is hype) draft If it cannot fail observably, it is not an agent: it is a demo. 7 min
- 11 Jun 2026 I built an LLM from scratch: what nobody tells you about transformers draft I don't use tools I can't derive. So I derived this one. 12 min
- 27 May 2026 RAG in production: what breaks that tutorials never show draft The most expensive failure mode is the one that doesn't look like a failure. 10 min
- 8 May 2026 Multi-tenant from day one: the decision that saved me draft It is the one thing you cannot retrofit without rewriting the product. 8 min
- 21 Apr 2026 The mathematics of anti-spoofing, without the hype draft Telling a face from a photo of that face is a threshold problem, not magic. 11 min