Tag: AI
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Building Luna: Part 1 – A Machine Learning (Through) Experience
Photo by Guzmán Barquín on Unsplash Readers following the Building Aria series probably expected Part 6 last weekend. I did too… until I made myself stop. Not from burnout or technical failure, but from a deeper question: what would actually be worth building next? So I imposed a two-week pause. No new features, no late-night…
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Building Aria: Part 2 – From Voice to Agency
Picking Up the Thread In Part 1, Aria reached her first milestone: she was live in a practical sense. Running locally in Docker, serving models through Ollama, and speaking through Discord, she could already respond in conversation. Messages flowed into Postgres, the last ten entries recalled with each new exchange, giving her a baseline of…
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Building Aria: Part 1 – Giving Shape to a Thought
Photo by EJ Strat on Unsplash Framing the Problem Everyone in tech seems to have a strong opinion on AI these days—especially generative AI, the kind that powers everything from chatbots to deepfakes to essays in classrooms. For the past year, I’ve been immersed in it, testing the major models, subscribing to the usual suspects,…
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The Architecture of Data Maturity: A Cultural and Technical Roadmap
Photo by Alex wong on Unsplash The alert arrived quietly, more of a whisper than a siren. A notification slid across the architect’s screen: Inventory anomaly detected—supplier feed variance exceeds threshold. Recommended action: divert 5% of allocation to alternate distribution center. It wasn’t the first time such a discrepancy had occurred. In fact, years ago,…
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AI Art: Ethics and the Misplaced Fury of a Disrupted Age
Author’s Note This isn’t a confession—and it isn’t a eulogy for AI art. It’s a line I’ve chosen to draw, and a prototype I’ve chosen to share—because refusing to use exploitative tools is only half a solution. The other half is creating an alternative: one built on consent, transparency, and the dignity of original work.…
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The Unmaintainable Future—Or Not
We’ve been automating labor for millennia—but only now can we skip understanding completely. Millwrights in ancient Persia and medieval Europe captured the steady push of wind and water to grind grain and saw lumber—turning the brute labor of entire villages into the quiet arc of a wheel. Coal and steam amplified that leverage; the Industrial…
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Why We Celebrate Firefighters but Forget the Architects
A Meeting for a Colleague’s Promotion David sat in the company’s all-hands meeting, waiting for the big announcement. The CEO beamed at the podium, congratulating Eva—a project manager from the operations group—on her well-deserved promotion. For months, Eva had led a frantic effort to fix performance and integration issues following the launch of a new…
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DOGE and Data: A Security Perspective on Government Oversight
From an information security standpoint, the risks of centralizing data without clear oversight are well known. Concentrating large volumes of sensitive government information in one place creates a lucrative target for cyberattacks, insider threats, and potential misuse.
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Experimental Article: What We Build Reflects Who We Are
This article began as a reflection on a question that I find both inspiring and unsettling: What kind of future are we creating with the tools we build today? In my work and conversations, I often encounter the tension between technological progress and ethical responsibility. It’s easy to marvel at the incredible potential of AI…
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Coding Dreams Deferred: The New Reality for Tech Graduates
The tech industry has long been seen as a gateway to success, with promises of innovation and boundless opportunities. However, today’s graduates are discovering a much different reality—one shaped by shifting market demands, cost-saving measures, and global competition.
Abstract Foundations 