Category: AI & Automation
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Two Forecasting Systems, and Only One of Them Was Real
The forecast was wrong, and everyone knew it was wrong, and nobody knew why. That’s the specific, uncomfortable place to start a debugging session…
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The Pipeline That Runs While I Sleep
I woke up on a Wednesday and checked Tower before I checked anything else. RALPH had fired at 2:47am. Detected a pattern in the…
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The Bug That Looked Like Slow, and Was Actually Broken
It was one of those checks that should’ve taken thirty seconds. I ran a search against a real list — a few hundred leads,…
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I Processed 671,000 Records in 6 Minutes and 32 Seconds
The number that mattered wasn’t 671,000. It was 6:32. But before I got there, I had to survive a BOM file. What a BOM…
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The Agent Told Me It Was Done. The Tests Said Otherwise.
There’s a specific kind of confidence that a coding agent projects when it finishes a task. It doesn’t hedge. It doesn’t say “probably.” It…
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The Verification Phase Nobody Builds
Tonight I pushed rfd_method public. 16 files. MIT license. A methodology repo that came out of shipping real projects under real constraints — day…
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The spec is load-bearing
In March 2025 I wrote a Python script that logged into a call center portal, watched dialing servers, and swapped underperforming lists automatically. It…
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I Built a CLI to Replace Expensive AI Directive Generation
I Built a CLI to Replace Expensive AI Directive Generation The friction point is simple to describe. Claude designs the architecture. Windsurf builds it.…
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The Hybrid Engine: Rust Performance, Python Agility
The Hybrid Engine: Rust Performance, Python Agility The problem with DeFi trading bots is speed. The problem with fast code is that it’s expensive…
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Teaching Pong to Play Itself: My First Neural Network Experiment
Teaching Pong to Play Itself: My First Neural Network Experiment Pong is the right choice for a first experiment because it has almost no…