Blog

Essays on systems, technology, and the ideas that sit behind the work.

Work

Marvix AI: Building an Ambient Scribe from Scratch

What I'm building at Marvix AI — an ambient scribe that listens, understands, and writes so people don't have to — and what it takes to make AI dependable enough to disappear into someone's workflow.

Marvix AI Ambient Scribe LLMs

Work

karenizer: I Spent a Weekend Teaching an LLM to Be Unreasonable

A web app that turns your boring complaints into increasingly unhinged Karen-level letters — because sometimes the cold, factual version just doesn't capture how you truly feel about a lukewarm latte.

LLMs Prompt Engineering FastAPI Irrationality

Work

adgen: From a One-Line Brief to a Ranked Ad Campaign

A system I built that turns a one-sentence business description into ranked publisher recommendations, persona-tuned ad creative, and a structured campaign config — and is honest enough to recommend nothing when the fit isn't there.

LLMs Ad Tech Pipelines

Notions

Notes on Finding Your Own Way

On contentment over happiness, the role of desire and hedonism in the journey toward wisdom, and the only game worth playing — your own.

Meaning Contentment

Work

synopso: A Daily AI Paper Briefing, Built as a Pipeline

A pipeline I built that wakes up each morning, finds the day's most-discussed AI papers on HuggingFace, downloads and reads them, and delivers a Telegram briefing — without me lifting a finger.

LLMs Pipelines Automation

Engineering

Making LLM Output Reliable When the Stakes Are Real

A demo only has to work once. A production system has to be trustworthy on the worst input it will ever see. The gap between those two is where most of the engineering actually lives — and where the lawsuits happen.

LLMs Reliability Production AI

Philosophy

It Takes Courage, But...

Courage rewards action regardless of direction, which is why real goodness requires more than passive harmlessness. Strength matters because choosing rightly only means something when you could do otherwise.

Courage Character

Notions

Ideal State Fallacy

The perfect time to begin or deliver never arrives. Waiting for ideal conditions often hides fear, while progress comes from acting before everything feels ready.

Action Perfectionism

Notions

Duality of Mind

The inner voice is a dialogue, not a monologue. One side urges action while the other looks for excuses, and discipline comes from learning which voice to follow.

Discipline Self-mastery

Notions

Finite vs Infinite Games

Life changes depending on whether you play for a fixed win or for continued growth. The infinite-game mindset turns meaning into a practice rather than an end state.

Mindset Meaning